Catalog
1 Peseta Alp
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alp (Municipality of Alp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT D`ALP reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA pesseta en virtut de l`acord del 21 de maig del 1937 Alp, el 26 de maig del 1937 Imp. `El Secretariat Català` (Translation: The City Council of Alp recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta under the agreement of May 21, 1937 Alp, May 26, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 pesseta (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Alp is a small village in the Cerdanya comarca of Catalonia, high in the Pyrenees. During the Civil War, the collapse of metallic currency circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many of them tiny — to print their own emergency fractional notes under a framework loosely coordinated by the Generalitat. The El Secretariat Català press in Barcelona handled a substantial number of these municipal commissions, which is why notes from geographically remote villages bear the imprint of a Barcelona printer.
Turró's catalog documents over a thousand such local emissions. Alp's issue is among the more obscure, reflecting a village population that could not have placed many notes in circulation before the Nationalist advance into Catalonia ended the Republic's monetary improvisation entirely by early 1939.