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1 Peseta Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Balaguer (Municipality of Balaguer) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Balaguer BON contra la Caixa Municipal 1 pesseta Curs obligatori per a canvi (Translation: City Council of Balaguer Bond against the Municipal Fund 1 Peseta Mandatory course for change) |
| Reverse description | A central heraldic vignette rendered in red letterpress, composed of two crossed chequered shields over vertical stripes — elements drawn from the arms of Balaguer — enclosed within an oval cartouche of scrolling acanthus ornaments. The denomination '1 PTA.' appears in circular panels to the left and right of the central device, with the serial number printed in red at the upper corners and the issue and expiry dates set in two columns at the foot of the note. |
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Municipal emergency currency printed during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of normal coin supply forced hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities to issue their own paper. Balaguer, a small town on the Segre River in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, was in Republican-held territory in 1937 — the Ajuntament had both the political authority and, through the worker-controlled Imprenta Unió Obrera, the means to produce its own fractional notes.
The printer's name reflects the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization of industry that swept Republican Catalonia in the early war years. The Imprenta Unió Obrera was not a commercial house but a workers' collective that had taken over the press. Turró catalogs well over two thousand such local issues; Balaguer's is entry 275.