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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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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in a single colour, the obverse is framed by a typographic ornamental border enclosing a guilloche underprint of interlocking geometric lathe-work that serves as a decorative security background. The issuer's name arches across the upper margin in bold capital letters, while the denomination and redemption conditions are set in centred typographic text. Bond terms, including the municipal treasury reference and expiry date, complete the lower portion of the design. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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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.