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1 Peseta Arbeca
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Arbeca (Municipality of Arbeca) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design on cream cardboard with rounded corners. The issuer name "Ajuntament ARBECA" appears at the top, separated from the central denomination "VAL 1 PTA." by a pair of horizontal rules. A further horizontal rule divides the denomination field from the lower band, which bears the date "Febrer del 1937" flanked on each side by two small decorative rosette ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Largely plain cream cardboard reverse with a faint circular municipal stamp impressed in blue ink at lower centre, and a handwritten serial number in blue ink above it. Show-through of the obverse typeset text is faintly visible. |
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Arbeca is a small agricultural municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida. Like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply consumed by the war economy. These local emissions, collectively known as moneda local or paper de guerra, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree of September 1936, which gave municipalities the legal cover to plug the change shortage themselves.
Turró catalogues this as #164. Survival rates for Arbeca's issues are modest — small-town runs were short, poorly stored, and frequently destroyed after the Nationalist occupation ended their validity.