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1 Peseta Avià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Avià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress printing on yellow cardboard stock, enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL - AVIA' is printed in bold capitals across the upper portion, flanked on each side by the numeral '1' within small framed cartouches. The central legend 'Val 1 pesseta' is set in Gothic script, with a light guilloche-style rosette underprint visible in the background; below, printed role designations 'Conseller Cap.' and 'Secretari Interventor.' appear above two manuscript signatures flanking a handwritten serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain reverse with no printed design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the economy of production typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Avià is a small municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar villages it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's central monetary supply collapsed at the local level. The Consell Municipal — the revolutionary council that replaced the pre-war town government — authorized these notes to keep basic commerce moving. Jaume Molins was a working printer in nearby Berga, not a specialist currency printer, and the cardboard stock reflects what was available rather than any deliberate design choice.
Turró catalogues over 1,800 such local emissions from Catalonia alone between 1936 and 1939.