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1 Peseta Alcarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcarràs (Municipality of Alcarràs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in violet on a green dotted guilloche underprint, with the issuing authority and denomination enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. A red-stamped oval cartouche at right bears the denomination 'UNA PESSETA', with the series letter and serial number printed in red at upper right. Three manuscript signatures appear across the lower centre, attributed to the Mayor, the Depositary, and the Secretary-Auditor, above two lines of Catalan text at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Simple typographic design printed in violet, with the issuing authority's name set within a double horizontal rule at the top of a plain rectangular ornamental frame. The denomination is printed in two lines in large type at centre-left, with the year 'ANY 1937' at lower right. An unprinted dotted oval reserve appears at right, likely intended for a control stamp. |
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Alcarràs is a small agricultural municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coin that followed the hoarding and melting that disrupted everyday commerce almost immediately after July 1936. These municipal notes were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
Xavier Asensio operated a modest print shop in Lleida that produced emergency issues for several local councils in the region. Lleida itself fell to Nationalist forces in April 1938, which gave these notes an unusually hard cutoff date for circulation.