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1 Peseta Almatret
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almatret (Municipality of Almatret) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on pale blue-grey card stock. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT ALMATRET' appears in two lines of bold capitals at upper centre, separated from the denomination line 'Valor 1 pta.' by a row of five small ornamental circles, with a column of three bold vertical rules serving as a decorative device to the left. A manuscript serial number is entered on a dotted line beside the printed 'Núm.' legend, and a circular municipality control stamp is applied at centre left. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT ALMATRET Valor 1 pta. Núm. (Translation: City Council Almatret Value 1 Peseta No.) |
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Almatret is a small village in the Segrià comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local bodies to fill the acute coin shortage of 1936–37. These hyper-local emissions were often produced with whatever printing resources existed nearby — village presses, rubber stamps, hand-numbering — which accounts for the card stock construction here rather than conventional banknote paper.
Turró catalogues this emission under #118. Given Almatret's population at the time, surviving quantities are extremely limited.