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1 Peseta Bagà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bagà (Municipality of Bagà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | The face is composed entirely of text set within an ornamental border, with the four-barred coat of arms of Catalonia (the senyera) positioned to the left. The full authorizing legend is printed in Catalan in a plain letterpress style, stating the issuing municipality, the denomination in words, the authorizing council date, and the declaration of mandatory acceptance throughout the municipal territory. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAGÀ reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA acord del dia 6 de novembre de 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Bagà recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta agreement of November 6, 1937 Mandatory course throughout the municipality) |
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Bagà is a small town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. These local emissions — collectively called "moneda local de necessitat" — were authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya from mid-1936 onward, producing an enormous variety of small-denomination paper scrip across the region.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and the 259 numbering places Bagà well into the mid-range of documented Catalan issuers. Survival rates for these notes vary sharply by municipality — smaller towns often printed short runs, and many were never formally redeemed.