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1 Peseta Cornudella de Montsant
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cornudella de Montsant |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain field printed in dark blue letterpress, with the issuer name underlined at centre and a wavy-line border running the full perimeter of the note. The text states the issuing authority and the face value of one peseta. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL CORNUDELLA DE MONTSANT |
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Cornudella de Montsant is a small municipality in the Priorat comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency paper money — *moneda local* or *val* — during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of late 1936 effectively authorized local councils to fill the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Consell Municipal turned to Imprenta De Ferrando in nearby Reus, the commercial printing hub of Camp de Tarragona, which produced emergency currency for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period.
The official stamp is the sole security feature — entirely typical of these wartime local issues, where anti-counterfeiting measures were secondary to getting something spendable into circulation quickly.