Catalog
1 Peseta Besora
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Santa Maria de Besora |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unprinted stock with a large circular red rubber stamp applied at centre, bearing the face value in two lines. A diagonal handwritten black ink signature crosses the stamp as a manuscript validation mark. The composition is typographically austere, with the stamped impression and manuscript autograph serving as the sole authenticating elements. |
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| Reverse description | Blank stock with a black oval municipal rubber stamp applied at centre, its continuous perimeter legend identifying the issuing authority. No further printed or typeset text appears on this side. |
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Santa Maria de Besora is a municipality in Osona, Catalunya, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That it issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain after July 1936 forced hundreds of municipalities, however tiny, to print their own paper substitutes or face a complete breakdown of local commerce. These are guerra civil municipal issues, and Besora's are among the smaller-town examples catalogued by Turró.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at the local level, meant to give the scrip enough physical durability to survive repeated handling in a single village economy.