Catalog
1 Peseta Begudà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Begudà |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Begudà El Consell Municipal de Begudà reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat d'UNA PESSETA Begudà, 15 de Juliol del 1937. L'Alcalde-President. El Secretari-Interventor. El Conseller d'Hisenda. (Translation: Municipal Council of Begudà The Municipal Council of Begudà recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta Begudà, July 15, 1937. The Mayor-President. The Secretary-Comptroller. The Councillor of Finance.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in letterpress with a central panoramic landscape vignette of the town of Begudà, with the waterfall from the dam of a local paper mill over the River Toronell occupying the foreground. The denomination '1 pta.' is set in text above the vignette, and the mandatory currency legend appears below, all contained within a ruled border consistent with the obverse framing. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Begudà is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona — so small that its wartime scrip issue is among the more obscure entries in the Turró catalogue of Catalan Civil War emergency currency. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation after 1936 forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities, however minor, to print their own substitute notes. Begudà was one of them.
The printer, Imprenta C. Barnés of Palamós, handled a number of these local issues for municipalities along the Costa Brava and inland Girona. Palamós-printed municipal notes tend to share certain typographic characteristics that make attribution relatively straightforward when issuer details are damaged or missing.