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1 Peseta Belltall
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Belltall (Municipality of Belltall) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'Ajuntament de Belltall' appears at the top in serif type, underlined by a bold rule. Below, the denomination 'UNA PESSETA' is set in large bold capitals, flanked above by the legend 'CERTIFICAT DE PLATA' and below by the mandatory-circulation clause and the issue date 'Març del 1937'. A serial number is hand-stamped in black at the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream card stock, showing the natural texture and slight mottling of the paper with no design, lettering, or ornament of any kind. |
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Belltall is a hamlet in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia — population measured in the dozens even then. Its ayuntamiento issued this note in 1937 as part of the broader Catalan municipal currency emergency, when the Republic's coin shortage forced hundreds of local governments, however tiny, to print their own fractional paper. Turró catalogued over a thousand such emissions; Belltall's is among the more obscure.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale — easier to produce locally without proper printing infrastructure, and less likely to fall apart in daily handling than thin banknote paper.