Catalog
1 Peseta Besalú
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Condal Vila de Besalú |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is entirely handwritten in black ink on plain paper, with the denomination 'una pesseta / 1 pta' and a sequential voucher number inscribed in the central field. The issuing authority and the phrase 'Val provisional' are rendered in manuscript script, while a circular municipal seal and the date are applied in violet ink by rubber stamp, conferring official validity. A manuscript signature appears below the text, consistent with Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely unprinted save for a violet rubber-stamp impression centred on the plain paper surface, bearing the legend of the issuing municipal authority. |
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Besalú's wartime scrip emerged from the same Republican decree of June 1937 that authorized Catalan municipalities to issue emergency small-change notes — a response to the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation as the Civil War ground on. Hundreds of ajuntaments issued their own local paper, most in tiny print runs, most redeemed or destroyed before 1939.
Imprenta C. Barnés in Palamós handled several of these municipal commissions across the Baix Empordà and Gironès regions. The survival rate for Besalú's issue is low; the town fell to Nationalist forces in February 1939, and unredeemed scrip had no practical value afterward.