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1 Peseta Alcover
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Alcover |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint with a faint central vignette, enclosed within an elaborate blue ornamental border of interlocking geometric and floral motifs with numeral 1 in each corner. The issuer name "Consell Municipal d'Alcover" appears in large blue letters across the top, followed by the promise-to-pay legend in smaller type, the denomination "UNA PESSETA" in bold, and the issuance date at centre. Two facsimile signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Conseller-President and the Conseller de Finances. |
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| Reverse description | Light green guilloche underprint of repeated oval and leaf motifs, surrounded by a purple ornamental border of stylised floral and foliate devices with numeral 1 in each corner. A two-line explanatory legend in Catalan is printed at the top, with "SÈRIE A" appearing twice at centre flanking the serial number, and the denomination "UNA PESSETA" set in bold at the foot. |
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Alcover is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republic's small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. The Consell Municipal — the revolutionary municipal council installed after the July uprising — held the issuing authority here, not any banking institution. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled production for several such local issues in the province, making it possible to identify related notes across the region by paper stock and typographic conventions.
Turró catalogues this as #85. The two signatories, Pere Roig and Miquel Maimó, were local officials whose names appear on the note as the sole guarantee of its value.