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1 Peseta Castelló de Farfanya
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelló de Farfanya |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 103 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note on yellow paper, the entire field covered by a repetitive floral rosette underprint enclosed within a plain rectangular border. The bold black capitals AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLÓ DE FARFANYA run across the top, with the denomination 1 pta. repeated at each corner. The body text in Catalan, dated 17 March 1937, carries the bearer promise with UNA PESSETA in bold emphasis, below which three handwritten signatures appear beneath the roles of Alcalde, Dipositari, and Finances, accompanied by a circular blue municipal stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 pta. AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLÓ DE FARFANYA El Dipositari d'aquest Ajuntament, satisfarà al portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA en moneda corrent del Banc d'Espanya. Castelló de Farfanya, 17 de març de 1937. Alcalde. Dipositari. Finances. (Translation: 1 Peseta. City Council of Castelló de Farfanya. The Depositary of this City Council will satisfy the bearer the amount of One Peseta in current currency of the Bank of Spain. Castelló de Farfanya, 17 March 1937. Mayor. Depositary. Finance.) |
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Castelló de Farfanya is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it found itself without functional small change after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply enough coin led local councils — ajuntaments — to print their own emergency fractional currency, a phenomenon that produced thousands of distinct local issues across the zone.
This note was printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, a workers' cooperative print shop that handled several municipal issues from the Noguera region during the same period. Turró's catalog documents the issue as #748.