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1 Peseta Beget
| Issuer | Beget, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Anglada, Camprodon, Spain |
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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 1 PTA. (Translation: Beget The Municipal Council of this town, recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta. Beget, 1 June 1937. Mandatory local currency banknote. 1 Peseta.) |
| Reverse description | Panoramic view of the village of Beget, set within a landscape vignette. |
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Beget is one of the most isolated settlements in the Garrotxa region of Catalonia — a village that in the 1930s held only a few hundred inhabitants. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds: the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held territory in 1937 forced hundreds of Catalan towns and villages to print their own local scrip under a framework loosely authorized by the Generalitat.
Imprenta Anglada in nearby Camprodon produced notes for several of these micro-municipalities, which is why the printing quality across different issuers in the area is often strikingly similar. Turró documents this as reference 334.