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1 Peseta Amposta
| Issuer | Amposta, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Rectangular frame formed by a continuous ornamental border encloses the central text block, with the Coat of Arms of Catalonia positioned to the right. The entire composition is executed in a typographic letterpress style typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues, with the denomination and issuing authority rendered in bold lettering within the bordered field. |
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| Reverse description | Ornamental perimeter border frames the reverse design, with the Coat of Arms of Amposta occupying the central portion of the note. The layout follows a simple typographic arrangement characteristic of municipally produced Civil War emergency currency, with denomination and issuing authority inscribed within the bordered field. |
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Amposta is a small town in the Ebro Delta of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money in 1937 when Republican Spain experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. The central government in Valencia had little capacity to supply change to the provinces, so local councils, trade unions, and cooperatives filled the gap with their own emergency scrip — legally authorized under a 1937 Republican decree but practically a symptom of monetary disintegration.
Turró catalogs Amposta's issues thoroughly; this peseta denomination is among the more commonly encountered from the municipality, though survival in decent condition is uneven given the low-quality wartime paper stock used across the region.