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1 Peseta Castelldans
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelldans |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on plain paper with an all-over blue dotted underprint forming a fine geometric grid within a rectangular border of squares and dots. The issuing authority title 'AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLDANS' is set in large dark green capitals across the upper field, with the denomination '1 Pta.' in bold green letterpress at centre-left alongside the validity clause in Catalan. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot under the printed titles L'INTERVENTOR, L'ALCALDE, and EL CAIXER, with a serial number printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper ground bearing a single central green letterpress vignette of rounded oblong form, composed of a dense dotted guilloche pattern with a horizontal plain band through the centre carrying the denomination '1 PESSETA' in bold green block capitals. The overall design is simple and typographic, without further ornamentation. |
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Castelldans is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida — population a few hundred even today. During the Spanish Civil War, Republican-controlled local councils throughout Catalonia issued their own emergency paper money after the banking system fractured and metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation. The Generalitat had authorized municipal issues by 1937, but oversight was minimal, and hundreds of ajuntaments produced notes of wildly varying quality and legitimacy.
Turró catalogues this as #706, placing it well into the long tail of Catalan municipal wartime issues. Castelldans produced a very limited quantity; surviving examples are genuinely scarce, as most small-town issues were either spent into tatters or rendered worthless within months of Franco's forces taking Lleida province in early 1938.