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1 Peseta Alcoletge
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alcoletge |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow ground printed with a repeating pattern of small squares serves as underprint, with the face value of one peseta centered between square dot ornaments. All text and decorative elements are rendered in blue letterpress, giving the note a stark, utilitarian appearance typical of Catalan municipal emergency issues of the Civil War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALCOLETGE BON UNA PESSETA CONTRA LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Alcoletge Bond One Peseta Against the Municipal Treasury) |
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Alcoletge is a small municipality in the Lleida plain, and its 1937 peseta note is exactly the kind of hyper-local emergency issue the Spanish Civil War produced by the hundreds. With the Republican banking system fragmented and small change effectively vanishing from circulation, municipalities across Catalonia and Aragon were authorized — or simply went ahead without waiting — to print their own fractional currency to keep local commerce moving.
Turró catalogues this as #80, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal series, though surviving examples are scarce given the limited print runs typical of village-level issues and the disruption that followed Franco's 1938 advance into the region.