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1 Peseta Baronia de Rialb
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Baronia de Rialb |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Oval vignette at left centre contains a letterpress illustration of the Casa de la Vila (Town Hall building) surrounded by foliate ornaments. The face value '1 PESSETA' is printed in large bold type across the centre, with the serial number to its upper right. Two signature lines for L'Alcalde and El Secretari appear at the lower centre, below the reimbursement clause. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA 1 PESSETA DE CURS OBLIGATORI EN TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL CENTRE ADMO. MPAL.-EMP. COL. CASANOVA, 55 - BARCELONA (Translation: 1 Peseta / 1 Peseta of mandatory currency throughout the Municipal Term / Municipal Administrative Centre – Col. Casanova, 55 – Barcelona) |
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One of hundreds of emergency paper issues produced by Catalan municipal authorities during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local economies effectively paralyzed. The Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona handled printing for dozens of these ajuntament issues simultaneously — Baronia de Rialb was a tiny rural municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca, and its notes were almost certainly printed in very small quantities to serve a correspondingly small population.
Municipal issues at this scale rarely traveled far. Most circulated and were redeemed within the issuing community, which is precisely why survivors are disproportionately scarce relative to better-known urban issues from the same period.