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1 Peseta Alfarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alfarràs (Municipality of Alfarràs) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on red card stock, the obverse bears the municipal issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALFARRAS' in bold block capitals at upper centre, flanked to the left by three vertical bars serving as a decorative device. A row of five small circles, with the central one filled, appears below the issuer name as a simple ornamental separator. The denomination 'Valor 1 pta.' is set in large type at centre, with a serial number line reading 'Núm.' followed by a handwritten numeral at the lower portion, underscored by a double rule. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet municipal ink stamp applied to the reverse, serving as an authentication mark. |
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Alfarràs is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small change collapsed almost entirely in 1936. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the generic term *moneda de necessitat* — were typically produced in tiny print runs, often by the town's own administrative office on whatever card stock was available, and distributed within strictly local bounds.
Turró#100 places this among the better-documented Catalan issues, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce — small municipalities rarely printed in volume, and most circulating pieces were heavily handled before the series became obsolete.