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1 Peseta Bellpuig d'Urgell

Issuer Consell Municipal de Bellpuig d'Urgell
Year 1937
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Size 109 × 66 mm
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Obverse description The municipal coat of arms of Bellpuig d'Urgell occupies the central vignette, printed in red letterpress over a pale orange guilloche underprint. The issuer name 'Bellpuig d'Urgell' appears in large cursive script above the arms, with the denomination '1 pta.' repeated at lower left and lower right flanking two facsimile signature lines for 'El Primer Conseller' and 'El Conseller de Finances', accompanied by a circular official stamp at centre-right. A decorative hatched border frames the entire composition.
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Reverse lettering 1 pta
(Translation: 1 Peseta)
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal notes — "moneda de paper" — issued across Republican-held Catalonia after the Civil War disrupted normal currency supply. Bellpuig d'Urgell, a small town in the Urgell comarca, was among the smaller issuers; notes from towns of this size typically circulated within a very limited radius and were often redeemed or simply discarded once the crisis passed, which explains their relative scarcity today.

Grafos was a Barcelona printing cooperative collectivized early in the war, producing municipal paper for dozens of local councils under the anarcho-syndicalist structure that reorganized Catalan industry after July 1936.

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