Catalog
1 Peseta Besalú
| Issuer | Besalú, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a central municipal stamp in blue ink bearing the Coat of Arms of Besalú and the legend of the Ajuntament de la Vila de Besalú. The main text is printed in blue letterpress across the face, stating the obligation of the Municipal Council to pay the bearer one peseta, dated 10 April 1937. The overall design is unadorned, consistent with wartime emergency paper money production. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 1 pesseta Moneda Paper de curs local obligatori 1 SÈRIE A (Translation: 1 Peseta Paper-money of mandatory local course, Series A) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Besalú is a small medieval town in the Garrotxa region of Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's central coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes locales* framework, were a practical solution to a grinding shortage of small change, not a political statement in themselves.
The printer, Imprenta C. Barnés of Palamós, handled multiple municipal commissions along the Costa Brava during this period. Turró 428 is among the more obscure Girona provincial entries, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.