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1 Peseta Bot
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Bot (Municipality of Bot) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text in black letterpress. The denomination numeral '1' appears at upper left and lower right corners, with the issuing authority 'El Ayuntamiento de Bot' in bold capitals across the top. The central text states the bearer obligation in Spanish, with the denomination 'UNA Peseta' in large bold hand-lettered style type occupying the middle register. Below, a manuscript signature line for the mayor ('El Alcalde') appears at right, with the serial number prefixed 'Núm.' and the issue date '25 de Abril de 1937' at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely blank, printed on the same light cream card stock as the obverse, with no inscriptions, vignettes, or decorative elements. |
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Bot is a village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona province, with a population that barely reached a thousand during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, the Ayuntament issued its own fractional currency — vales or moneda local — to address the acute shortage of small coins that resulted from hoarding and the Republican government's inability to distribute coinage to rural areas. Josep Bassa's print shop in nearby Mora d'Ebre produced notes for several Terra Alta municipalities during this period, which accounts for the shared printing quality across the region's issues.
Turró catalogues over 1,500 distinct Spanish Civil War municipal issues; Bot's 1 Pesseta is among the more obscure, from a locality that generated little documentary record of its wartime monetary activity.