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1 Peseta Artesa de Lleida
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Artesa de Lleida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Payà, Lleida, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Cream-coloured note with red letterpress text enclosed within a simple linear rectangular border. A reserved space on the left accommodates an official municipal stamp, while the remaining text states the note's mandatory acceptance and its nominal value backed by the Bank of Spain. |
| Reverse lettering | Curs obligatori a Artesa de Lleida Dipòsit al Banc d`Espanya Val UNA PESSETA (Translation: Mandatory course at Artesa de Lleida Deposit at the Bank of Spain Worth One Peseta) |
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Artesa de Lleida is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca, and this note was issued by its local council during the Spanish Civil War under the emergency currency decrees that permitted Republican-controlled municipalities to issue small-denomination paper to compensate for the acute shortage of metal coin. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized these emissions, but quality and survival rates varied wildly by town — smaller print runs from rural municipalities like this one are considerably harder to locate than issues from larger Catalan centers.
Imprenta Payà operated in Lleida and printed for several nearby ayuntamientos during 1937. The city itself fell to Nationalist forces in April 1938, after which all Republican municipal currency became void.