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1 Peseta Bot
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Bot (Municipality of Bot) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain white paper, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with rounded corner ornaments bearing the denomination numeral '1' at upper left and lower right, and the abbreviation 'Pta.' at upper right and lower left. The issuing authority 'El Ayuntamiento de Bot' is set in bold display type at the top, above the bearer clause and the large-format denomination legend 'UNA PESETA' in heavy block lettering at centre. A serial number field ('Núm.') appears at lower left, the date '25 Abril 1937' at lower right, and a manuscript signature of the Alcalde is applied across the centre; the printer's imprint 'IMP. BASSA.- MORA DE EBRO.- TELF. 36' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. El Ayuntamiento de Bot RECONOCE A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE UNA PESETA El Alcalde Núm. 25 Abril 1937 IMP. BASSA.- MORA DE EBRO.- TELF. 36 (Translation: 1 Peseta The Municipality of Bot recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta The Mayor No. 25 April 1937 Printer Bassa - Mora de Ebro - Tel. 36) |
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Bot is a tiny municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced across Republican-controlled Catalonia during the Civil War. When the central government's coin supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning, municipalities down to the smallest village were left to print their own fractional currency. Imprenta Bassa in Mora de Ebro — itself a modest provincial press — handled a number of these regional commissions simultaneously.
Turró catalogues over 1,400 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. Bot's output is among the rarer ones, reflecting a population that was, and remains, well under a thousand.