Catalog
1 Peseta Bellcaire d'Empordà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bellcaire d'Empordà |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#361 |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the obverse carries the issuing authority's name and voucher denomination within a letterpress text composition framed by an asymmetrical dotted border. The background is filled with a floral and foliate underprint of flowers and leaves, lending a decorative quality typical of Catalan Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse in blue letterpress printing on a floral and foliate underprint, enclosed within an asymmetrical dotted border. The denomination and place name appear centrally, accompanied by the date of issue and a circular municipal stamp applied by hand, validating the note's official character. |
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Bellcaire d'Empordà is a small municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-zone towns during the Civil War, it printed its own fractional currency in 1937 when coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent as the war disrupted supply chains. These municipal emissions were authorized under a decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, which attempted to impose some order on what was otherwise a chaotic proliferation of purely local scrip.
Turró catalogues the issue but surviving examples are genuinely rare; small-town runs were tiny, and most were redeemed or discarded once the Nationalist advance into Catalonia rendered them worthless in early 1939.