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1 Peseta Ampolla
| Issuer | Ajuntament de l'Ampolla |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress on cream paper, enclosed within a scalloped and dotted geometric border. The municipal coat of arms of Ampolla appears to the left, with the issuing authority legend and denomination text arranged in a plain typographic layout across the face. The inscription confirms issuance in May 1937 for the purpose of facilitating small change. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'AMPOLLA VAL per UNA pesseta al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Maig del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Ampolla Voucher for One Peseta with the sole purpose of facilitating change May 1937.) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal notes — vals — issued by Catalan town councils during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's collapse of small-denomination coinage supply. The Ajuntament de l'Ampolla, a fishing village on the Ebro Delta coast, contracted Imprenta Solé in Tarragona to produce this note, as did several other small municipalities in the province who lacked the means or connections to seek printing further afield.
Turró catalogues it at #148, placing it within a dense sequence of Tarragona-area issues. Local vals of this type were theoretically redeemable only within the issuing municipality, which made them worthless the moment the war moved through.