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1 Peseta Batea
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Batea (Municipality of Batea) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted buff card stock bearing a single circular violet inked municipal stamp applied at centre, partially legible, with the legend "CONSELL MUNICIPAL BATEA" around the circumference and a small emblem at the centre of the seal impression. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL BATEA (Translation: Municipal Council Batea) |
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Batea is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to address the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation. The Ajuntament de Batea's 1 Peseta note, catalogued under Turró 325, belongs to that vast and often chaotic wave of municipal issues from 1936–1937.
Terra Alta saw significant front-line activity, and notes from this area had limited circulation windows before towns changed hands or administrations collapsed. Small runs, short lives.