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1 Peseta Aspa
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Aspa (Municipality of Aspa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in purple on cream paper and divided into two panels by a vertical rule, with a continuous Greek-key guilloche border running around the entire perimeter. The left panel carries the denomination numeral '1' flanked above by 'VAL de' and below by 'pesseta' in bold letterpress. The right panel bears the issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT D'ASPA' at the top, followed by the value legend in italic script, the mandatory-circulation clause, the place and date 'Aspa, març del 1937', and a serial number preceded by 'No'; a circular municipal validation stamp is applied over the central text area, and the printer's imprint '20331 Ilerda – Lleida' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL de 1 pesseta AJUNTAMENT D`ASPA Val d`UNA pesseta Circulació obligatòria dintre la població, garantit pel municipi. Aspa, març del 1937. (Translation: Voucher for 1 Peseta City Council of Aspa Voucher for One Peseta Mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the municipality. Aspa, March 1937.) |
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Aspa is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and this note is a product of the extraordinary fragmentation of money supply that occurred across Republican-held Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. With the national coinage system collapsing under wartime hoarding, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many of them tiny — issued their own emergency paper. The Generalitat nominally authorized the practice in 1937, but oversight was minimal.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda, the Lleida printer responsible for this note, produced emergency currency for numerous Segrià-area municipalities during this period, which gives the series a degree of regional consistency unusual among the guerra civil locals.