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1 Peseta Bellver de Cerdanya
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bellver de Cerdanya |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#391 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BELLVER DE CERDANYA 1`00 Pesseta BON contra la caixa Municipal Venciment 31 de desembre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Bellver de Cerdanya 1.00 Peseta Bond against the Municipal Treasury Expiration December 31, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | Emissió del 1er d'Abril del 1937 Curs obligatori dins del terme municipal (La cancel·lació deurà ésser feta a l'Ajuntament abans del dia deu de gener del 1938) (Translation: Issued April 1, 1937 Mandatory currency within the municipality (Cancellation must be made at the City Council before January 10, 1938)) |
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Bellver de Cerdanya is a small Pyrenean market town in the comarca of the Baixa Cerdanya, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. The Republican government's monetary disruption, combined with hoarding and the demands of wartime supply, left small transactions effectively impossible without local substitutes. These ajuntament-issued notes had no legal backing beyond local trust and municipal authority.
Turró catalogues this series extensively — over a thousand Catalan municipal issues are documented for 1936–1937 alone. Survival rates vary wildly by town size and print run.