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1 Peseta Alforja
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alforja (Municipality of Alforja) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The face is set within a single ruled rectangular border and carries a three-line Catalan text declaration in letterpress, beginning with an ornate decorative initial capital 'L' in the upper-left corner. Below the main legend appear the place and date 'Alforja, 1 Abril 1937' alongside three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. The denomination 'VALOR 1 Pta.' is printed in bold letterpress at the right, framed by small arrow-and-zigzag ornamental borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament d'Alforja ha creat aquest Paper-Moneda tant sols a l'objecte de facilitar les transaccions dintre el poble. Alforja, 1 Abril 1937 VALOR 1 Pta. (Translation: The City Council of Alforja has created this Paper-Money only for the purpose of facilitating transactions within the town. Alforja, April 1, 1937 Value 1 Peseta) |
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Alforja is a village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely reached 1,000 during the Republic. That a municipality this small was printing its own peseta notes in 1937 speaks directly to the monetary chaos of the Civil War's home front — the Republican zone suffered acute small-change shortages as hoarding stripped coins from circulation, forcing hundreds of Catalan towns to issue their own emergency paper.
Imprenta De Ferrando in Reus handled a number of these local emissions from the surrounding comarca, giving them a degree of technical consistency that purely hand-stamped village issues lacked. Turró catalogues this as #104, placing it within a well-documented but still locally scarce series.