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1 Peseta Ascó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ascó |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 88 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text in black on pale blue card stock, with the numeral '1' at upper left and the denomination 'PESSETA' below it. The issuing authority legend and bearer clause are set in mixed type sizes across the upper and middle field, with the written amount 'UNA Pesseta' in large bold type at centre. A circular violet official stamp of the Ajuntament d'Ascó, bearing a vignette of the locality's characteristic architecture, is applied over the centre of the note, with a serial number in red and the date 'Juliol - Any 1937' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain card stock, showing the natural off-white surface of the thick paper with no text, ornamentation, or security devices. |
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Ascó is a small municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantity. These municipal emissions were authorised under a patchwork of decrees from the Generalitat de Catalunya and, later, increasingly challenged by the central Republican government in Valencia, which wanted to claw back monetary control from the localities.
The official stamp is the only security measure — which tells you everything about how improvised and trust-based these instruments were. Turró catalogued over a thousand such emissions; Ascó's is among the more obscure.