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1 Peseta Alcanó
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcanó (Municipality of Alcanó) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALCANÓ Val per 1 pta. Garantid per la Caixa Municipal (Translation: City Council of Alcanó Valid for 1 Peseta Guaranteed by the Municipal Fund) |
| Reverse description | Plain buff reverse bearing a hand-applied oval municipal stamp inscribed ALCANÓ enclosing a heraldic vignette, with a manuscript signature in blue ink below. A handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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Alcanó is a small municipality in the Terres de l'Ebre region of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively known as paper moneda local or moneda de guerra — were produced under wildly inconsistent conditions, often by local printers with no experience in security printing, and the Ajuntament d'Alcanó was no exception.
Turró's catalog remains the standard reference for this material, and the low sequence number (#76) places Alcanó among the earlier-documented Catalan municipal issues.