Catalog
1 Peseta Beget
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Beget |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 113 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BEGET EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'AQUEST POBLE, RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE UNA PESSETA BEGET, 1 DE JUNY DEL 1937 BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: Beget The Municipal Council of this town, recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta Beget, June 1, 1937 Mandatory local currency banknote) EL PRESIDENT DEL CONSELL MUNICIPAL EL CONSELLER DE FINANCES Sèrie A. |
| Reverse description | Yellow-ochre vignette occupying most of the face depicts a panoramic sketch of the village of Beget nestled among mountainous terrain, with the church tower visible at centre. Bold dark blue sans-serif lettering at upper left and upper right carries the issuing authority and currency status inscriptions, while the denomination figure 1 and the word PESSETA appear in dark blue at lower right. The printer's imprint ANGLADA-CAMPRODON is visible in small type at the bottom centre below the vignette. |
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Beget is one of the smallest municipalities in Catalonia — a village of perhaps a few dozen inhabitants in the Ripollès comarca. That it issued its own emergency currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds; the Republican zone saw hundreds of local ajuntaments and consells produce paper money after the July 1936 coup disrupted the banking system and created an acute shortage of small change. What is striking is that Beget's consell municipal managed to commission a professionally printed note at all, rather than resorting to a rubber-stamped cardboard chit.
Imprenta Anglada in nearby Camprodon handled production for several of these Ripollès valley issues, which gives the series a degree of typographic consistency unusual among Catalan Civil War locals.