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1 Peseta Alcarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcarràs (Municipality of Alcarràs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE A No 00499 L`Ajuntament d`Alcarràs (Lleida) ABONARÁ AL PORTADOR UNA PESSETA Alcarràs, 6 de Maig del 1937 L`Alcalde El Dipositari El Secretari-Interventor Vàlid dins el terme d`Alcarràs. Expedít per a suplir la manca de moneda fraccionària. (Translation: SERIES A No 00499 / The City Council of Alcarràs (Lleida) Will Pay the Bearer / One Peseta / Alcarràs, 6 May 1937 / The Mayor The Depositary The Secretary-Auditor / Valid within the municipality of Alcarràs. / Issued to make up for the lack of fractional currency.) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`ALCARRAS UNA PESSETA ANY 1937 (Translation: City Council of Alcarràs / One / Peseta / Year 1937) |
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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.