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1 Peseta Argençola
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Argençola (Municipality of Argençola) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENNT D`ARGENSOLA UNA PTA. (Translation: City Council of Argensola One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain speckled green or light grey card stock with a black handstamped serial number and a circular municipal seal impressed in ink, serving as the primary authentication element of this emergency issue. |
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Argençola is a tiny municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia — population well under a thousand even today. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small change as coins were hoarded and metal was diverted to the war effort. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities, Argençola among them, responded by issuing their own emergency fractional currency under a loose authorization framework from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
These local emissions were rarely printed in large quantities, and many were redeemed or destroyed when the Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region in early 1939. Turró catalogued the series systematically; #198 places Argençola among the smaller, harder-to-source municipals.