Catalog
1 Peseta Baélls
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Baells |
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| Size | 63 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text printed in black letterpress within a double-rule rectangular border composed of alternating dash and dot-chain elements. The issuing authority name appears in the upper portion of the central field, separated from the denomination statement by a horizontal rule, with the value rendered in bold block capitals in the lower portion. A handstamped series and number designation in violet ink appears above the border frame. |
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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. |
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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.