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1 Peseta Garriguella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Garriguella (Municipality of Garriguella) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | White field enclosed by a geometric border in teal and dark blue with repeating foliate corner ornaments, printed by letterpress. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT DE GARRIGUELLA' appears in bold red type across the upper portion, separated from the central field by a double wavy rule above a small black diamond device; the denomination '1' is rendered in large red numerals at centre-right, flanked by the legend 'VAL PER' to the left and 'PESSETA' below, with a ruled panel of parallel lines at lower left and the printer's imprint 'Trayter, Figueres' at lower right. A circular violet official municipal stamp bearing a coat of arms is applied by hand over the centre of the note. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Garriguella is a small village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded the region after July 1936, when the outbreak of the Civil War choked off the supply of small-change coinage almost overnight. The Republican government was slow to address the shortage, so individual municipalities took matters into their own hands — legally, under a framework that was only retroactively authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya in late 1936.
Imprenta Trayter in nearby Figueres printed for dozens of these small Alt Empordà municipalities, which is why the physical quality across Turró-listed notes from this pocket of Catalonia is unusually consistent. The official stamp is the sole security feature — entirely typical of the series and easily forged, not that counterfeiting a 1 peseta village note offered much incentive.