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1 Peseta Camarasa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Camarasa (Municipality of Camarasa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed municipal bond note in black ink on salmon-tinted paper, enclosed within an ornamental typographic border. The Catalan coat of arms occupies the upper left corner, and the central field presents the bond text in a structured typographic layout over a dotted underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Camarasa BON UNA PESSETA contra la Caixa Municipal Camarasa, març del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Camarasa Bond One Peseta against the Caixa Municipal Camarasa, March 1937.) |
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Camarasa is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed almost entirely. The Consell Municipal authorized these notes to keep local commerce functioning — without them, making change was simply impossible. Printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, the job went to a workers' collective press, a detail that reflects the anarcho-syndicalist reorganization of industry across Republican-held Catalonia at the time.
Turró catalogs several hundred such municipal emissions from the period; Camarasa's is among the more obscure, with survival rates low given the note's small size and purely local utility.