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1 Peseta Aigüesbones
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Aigüesbones (Municipality of Aigüesbones) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Left vignette shows a fountain set into a stone wall, with water flowing beneath foliage, and the Catalan four-bar shield rendered in the stream; the numeral '1' appears in circular cartouches at lower left and upper right within a guilloche border. The issuer's name arches across the upper portion of the note above the large denomination legend 'UNA PESSETA', with three manuscript signatures below the reintegration clause, attributed to the Mayor (L'Alcalde), the Cashier (El Caixer), and the Secretary (El Secretari). A serial number appears in a rectangular box at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'AIGÜESBONES VAL PER UNA PESSETA Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal segons acord del 2 de setembre del 1937 L'Alcalde El Caixer El Secretari De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal d'Aigüesbones (Translation: City Council of Aigüesbones Valid for One Peseta Refundable to the Municipal Fund according to the agreement of September 2, 1937 The Mayor The Cashier The Secretary Mandatory legal tender throughout the municipality of Aigüesbones) |
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Aigüesbones is a small municipality in the comarca of Osona, Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish local governments during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized municipalities to print local fractional notes to address the acute coin shortage caused by hoarding and wartime disruption. Turró's catalog documents well over a thousand such issues, and the 1 Peseta from Aigüesbones is among the more obscure — the municipality's small population meant limited print runs and correspondingly thin survival rates.
The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions across Catalonia during 1937.