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1 Peseta Bell-lloc d'Urgell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bell-lloc d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet and divided into two distinct zones: the left half bears the issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT DE BELL-LLOC D'URGELL' in bold capitals beneath a double rule, with the date 'ANY 1937' at the foot and an oval municipal stamp impression at centre; the right half presents the large numeral '1' above the word 'Pesseta' enclosed within a dotted cartouche of curvilinear ornamental form, with 'UNA Pesseta' repeated vertically along both lateral borders. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BELL-LLOC D'URGELL 1 Pesseta UNA Pesseta ANY 1937 (Translation: City Council of Bell-lloc d'Urgell 1 Peseta One Peseta Year 1937) |
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Bell-lloc d'Urgell is a small agricultural municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, with a population that barely exceeded a thousand during the Civil War years. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, the local ajuntament stepped in to fill a vacuum created by the near-total disappearance of small-denomination metallic coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply gone — by issuing its own paper fractional currency under the Generalitat de Catalunya's emergency authorization framework.
Turró catalogues this as #372, placing it within the vast body of Catalan municipal wartime issues. These hyperlocal notes were redeemable only within the issuing municipality, which kept most in tight regional circulation and limits survivors today.