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1 Peseta Ampolla
| Issuer | L'Ampolla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress text printed on a yellow-green guilloche underprint composed of repeating lozenge and geometric motifs, enclosed within a decorative floral-scroll border. The series letter and denomination appear at centre flanked by four ornamental rosettes, with the date inscribed in the lower field. |
| Reverse lettering | MONEDA LOCAL OBLIGATÒRIA UNA pesseta Setembre del 1937. (Translation: Mandatory local coinage One Peseta September 1937) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal notes printed in Catalonia during the Civil War, when the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. L'Ampolla — a tiny fishing village on the Ebro Delta — issued its own paper currency because there was simply nothing else to spend. The Generalitat had authorized local authorities to do exactly this, creating a patchwork monetary system that functioned, more or less, until the Nationalists took Tarragona in January 1939.
Imprenta Solé produced notes for numerous Tarragona-area municipalities during this period. The village's extreme smallness makes surviving examples genuinely uncommon.