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1 Peseta Aigüestoses del Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Aigüestoses del Llobregat (Municipality of Aigüestoses del Llobregat, Province of Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Cardboard |
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| Reverse lettering | VAL PER UNA PESSETA AJUNTAMENT - AIGUES TOSSES DEL LLOBREGAT CONSELLERIA de SANITAT i ASSISTENCIA SOCIAL (Translation: Voucher for One Peseta - City Council - Aigues Tosses del Llobregat - Counsellorship of Health and Social Assistance) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Aigüestoses del Llobregat — a small municipality in the Berguedà comarca — issued this cardboard emergency note during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage. The central government's Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local ayuntamientos to produce their own fractional currency in 1937, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities complied, flooding the zone with an extraordinary variety of paper and cardboard issues that modern collectors now categorize under the broader moneda local classification.
At 40mm this is a large-format cardboard piece, and survival rates for these issues correlate poorly with original mintage — humidity, wartime disruption, and the Franco regime's deliberate suppression of Republican-era material destroyed the majority.