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1 Peseta Aurora de Lluçanès
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Aurora de Lluçanès (Municipality of Aurora de Lluçanès) |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-green on white paper, framed by a triple-line border with small ornamental corner squares. A large grey underprint of the Catalan coat of arms — a quartered shield with vertical stripes, flanked by laurel branches — occupies the left half of the note, with a hand-written serial number below it. The denomination 'UNA PESSETA' is set in bold letterpress at centre, above the redemption clause along the lower margin, while a guilloche panel fills the right portion alongside a manuscript signature under the title 'El Secretari Intor.' The printer's imprint 'Imp. Anglada, Vic' appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, printed on unprinted white paper with faint ghost impressions of the obverse text visible through the thin stock. An oval violet rubber stamp of the municipal authority — reading 'AJUNTAMENT' around a central device — is applied at centre, serving as the primary authentication mark in lieu of a formal printed design. |
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Aurora de Lluçanès is a small rural municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of emergency paper money — known as "moneda de necessitat" — that flooded Catalonia in the summer of 1936 after the military uprising caused metallic coin to vanish almost entirely from daily commerce. Hundreds of municipalities, many far smaller than any recognized banking authority, were forced to print their own fractional currency simply to keep local trade functioning.
Imprenta Anglada in Vic was among the busiest regional printers serving this need, producing notes for numerous Osona municipalities during the same period — which occasionally makes attribution difficult when stamps are faint or absent. The official stamp is the sole security element distinguishing a valid issued note from the printed sheet.