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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 | 110 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress design within a double-line rectangular border, the entire field filled with a repetitive geometric square-pattern underprint. All text is set in a straightforward typographic layout with no pictorial vignette, conveying the utilitarian character typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BELLVIS 1 pesseta Any 1937 (Translation: City Council of Bellvis 1 Peseta Year 1937) |
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Bellvís is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida province, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency local issues that proliferated across the Republican zone after July 1936, when the collapse of normal commerce and the hoarding of metallic coin left small communities functionally without small change. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized municipal emissions, which is why so many survive with traceable printers — Xavier Asensio in Lleida serviced numerous surrounding ayuntamientos during this period.
Turró catalogued this issue as #398, placing Bellvís among the smaller and less frequently encountered emitters from the comarca.