1 Peseta Artesa de Lleida

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.