Catalog
1 Peseta Albagés
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Albagès (Municipality of L'Albagès) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on red card stock by letterpress, the face carries the issuer's name in two lines of bold black capital lettering at upper centre-right. To the left, a rectangular vignette of vertical stripes in the style of the Catalan flag serves as a graphic ornament. Below the issuer name, a row of bold downward-pointing triangular ornaments acts as a dividing rule, with the denomination legend in large bold letterpress text occupying the lower portion. A serial number printed vertically in black appears along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same red card stock and is entirely unprinted, bearing only a handwritten manuscript signature in ink at the lower left, consistent with an authorising official's endorsement. |
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L'Albagès is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it resorted to locally printed emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation created a vacuum that municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives filled themselves. These moneda local issues — catalogued systematically by Turró — were technically illegal under Spanish monetary law but tolerated out of necessity.
The thick card stock used here was a practical choice: purpose-made paper was scarce, and heavier stock survived the handling of daily market transactions better than thin note paper.