Catalog
1 Peseta Alp
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alp (Municipality of Alp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream stock in red ink, framed by a dotted-rule border with ornamental corner devices. The issuer's name appears in bold spaced capitals at the top, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule, with the denomination 'UNA pesseta' set in large display type at centre and the authorising text citing the municipal agreement of 21 May 1937 above and below. Two manuscript signatures appear at foot beneath the printed titles 'L'Alcalde' and 'El Secretari', accompanied by a faint official municipality stamp. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALP Núm. UNA PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Alp No. One Peseta) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination metallic currency — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — forcing hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own emergency notes. Alp, a small village in the Cerdanya comarca of the Pyrenees, was among them. These locally issued papers, known collectively as moneda de paper local or simply paper moneda, had no legal standing beyond the issuing municipality's territory and were theoretically redeemable once the crisis passed.
The Turró catalogue documents over a thousand such issues. Most were printed under improvised conditions, which accounts for the heavier card stock — lighter paper simply didn't survive even brief handling.