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1 Peseta Bellvís
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bellvís (Municipality of Bellvís) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 51 × 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain ochre card stock printed in two colours by letterpress. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE BELLVIS is set in large ocher capitals across the upper field, flanked above and below by quadruple rule borders; the word DE is centred between rows of dots in the middle register. To the right, the denomination VAL PER 1 PESSETA is printed in bold black type, with the numeral 1 rendered at a larger point size. |
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| Reverse description | Plain ochre card stock, largely blank, with a serial number printed in black letterpress at centre. A circular municipal rubber stamp impression in violet ink is visible at left, partially overlapping the central area of the note. |
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Bellvís is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it was forced to produce its own fractional currency after the hoarding and disappearance of metallic coin left local commerce at a standstill. The Republican government had authorized municipalities to issue emergency paper from 1936 onward, which produced an enormous proliferation of hyper-local notes — Turró's catalog documents well over a thousand distinct issuers from this period.
Bellvís's output was modest, and surviving pieces are rarely encountered outside specialist collections of Guerra Civil municipal issues.