Katalog
| Emittent | Ajuntament de Santa Maria de Besora |
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| Größe | 70 × 52 mm |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | UNA PESETA S : 2 : Val sol a Besora (Translation: One Peseta Series 2: Valid only in Besora) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is left plain on the card stock, bearing only a black oval municipal rubber stamp impression applied by hand. The stamp is the sole mark on the otherwise blank surface, authenticating the note as a valid emergency emission of the local council. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Santa Maria de Besora is a municipality in Osona, Barcelona province, with a population historically numbering in the hundreds. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree of June 1937 authorized Catalan municipalities to issue their own small-denomination emergency currency — els bitllets locals — to address a crippling shortage of coin caused by widespread hoarding and metal requisitioning. Besora's issues are among the more obscure examples from this period, produced by a council with almost no financial infrastructure and a tiny population to absorb them.
Turró 434 is the standard reference for collectors of Spanish Civil War municipal issues. Very few Besoran notes survive in any quantity.