Catalog
1 Peseta Aitona
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Aitona |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#47 |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on grey-green card stock, the obverse bears the issuer name CONSELL MUNICIPAL in bold capitals across the top, with AITONA and FINANCES flanking a solid dark blue diamond ornament, separated by double horizontal rules. A serial number appears vertically along the left margin, and the denomination Val per 1 pta. is set in large bold type across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The plain grey-green card stock reverse carries a rectangular violet official stamp applied inverted, reading CONSELLERIA DE ECONOMIA / l'Ajuntament d'Aytona, accompanied by a red handwritten signature or paraph to the right, with faint pencilled annotations visible in the upper area. |
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Aitona is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency when coin disappeared from circulation entirely. These local emissions — collectively known as paper moneda — were produced under the authority of the Republican-controlled municipalities from 1936 onward, filling a vacuum the central government couldn't address fast enough. Aitona's issues are documented in Turró's exhaustive catalog but remain among the more obscure municipal emissions from the region.
The thick card stock construction was a practical response to the short production runs and absence of proper banknote paper.