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1 Peseta Almacelles
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Almacelles |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on cream card stock, framed by a decorative dotted border. The Coat of Arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya appears as a small vignette at the left, with the denomination '1 PTA.' repeated in the upper corners. Central text in Catalan acknowledges bearer entitlement to one peseta under the council resolution of 18 March 1937, with printed signature lines for El President, El Caixer, and L'Interventor below. Series letter 'SERIE A' and a four-digit serial number appear at lower left, with a faint 'CONSELL' watermark-style underprint across the centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock reverse printed in green, with a simple rectangular frame and a ruled square panel reserved at the left to receive the official municipal ink stamp. The remaining space carries the validity inscription in two lines, affirming the note's compulsory circulation within Almacelles. |
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Almacelles is a small agricultural town in the Lleida plain, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1937 — hoarded, melted, or simply absent after the monetary disruption that followed July 1936. These local notes, collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system, were produced to fill the void left at the most granular level of commerce: market stalls, bread queues, daily wages.
Printed by Imprenta Sol in Lleida, the card-weight stock was a deliberate choice — heavier material lasted longer in hands that were not treating it as currency so much as a necessity.