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0.25 Pesetas Bellver de Cerdanya
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bellver de Cerdanya (Municipality of Bellver de Cerdanya) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BELLVER DE CERDANYA 0`25 Pessetes BON contra la caixa Municipal Venciment 31 de desembre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Bellver de Cerdanya 0.25 Pesetas Bond against the Municipal Fund Expiration December 31, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | Emissió del 1.er de maig del 1937 AJUNTAMENT DE BELLVER DE CERDANYA Curs obligatori dins el terme municipal (La cancel·lació haurà d'ésser feta a l'Ajuntament abans del dia deu de gener del 1938) (Translation: Issued May 1, 1937 City Council of Bellver de Cerdanya Mandatory currency within the municipality (The cancellation must be made to the City Council before January 10, 1938)) |
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Bellver de Cerdanya is a small Pyrenean town in the comarca of Baixa Cerdanya, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when the Republic's small-change shortage became acute after 1936. The hoarding of metal coinage had stripped local commerce of anything below one peseta, forcing town councils — ajuntaments — to print their own emergency notes under authority loosely granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such local emissions. At 394, Bellver's issue sits deep in that count — one municipality among many, printing on whatever paper stock was available.