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1 Peseta Capafonts
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Capafonts |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#647 |
| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text arranged within a single-line rectangular border, with a red dotted guilloche underprint filling the background. The central inscription states the issuing authority and redemption pledge in Catalan. Corner ornaments in red punctuate the perimeter framing. |
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| Reverse description | An elaborate red guilloche oval vignette occupies the centre of the note, its intricate engine-turned lattice framing a horizontal cartouche with the denomination in dark blue letterpress. The numeral '1' appears in dark blue at the upper left and lower right corners, with 'SERIE A' printed in the lower left. A serial number prefixed by 'No' is positioned at the upper right. |
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Capafonts is a small village in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, population well under a thousand even in the 1930s. Its municipal council issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War under the same decree that authorized hundreds of Catalan municipalities to produce local currency when coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936–37. Turró's catalog documents just how atomized this emergency system became — villages of every size printing their own scrip, often in tiny runs, with survival rates that correlate brutally with original quantity.
Notes from micro-municipalities like Capafonts are among the more elusive in the Turró series.