Catalog
1 Peseta Baélls
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Baells |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#216-C |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream paper bearing a large oval official municipal handstamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp encloses the municipal coat of arms — a quartered shield surmounted by a mural crown — with the legend running around the oval perimeter. |
| Reverse lettering | · CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE · BAELLS (HUESCA) · |
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Baells is a small municipality in the comarca of Berguedà, Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorized local councils to produce low-denomination scrip to address the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. The Consejo Municipal — the wartime replacement for the pre-war Ajuntament — was responsible for authorizing and guaranteeing these notes against redemption, though in practice many issuing bodies dissolved before redemption occurred.
Gari Mon catalogues three types for Baells; this is the C variant.