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1 Peseta Castellserà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellserà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in brown ink on paper with a light green guilloche underprint of small interlocking squares across the entire field. A double-rule perimeter border frames the design, within which the Catalan-language payment obligation text is set in uppercase, with the denomination UNA PESSETA centred in the body of the note. The issuing municipality and date of issue, 20 de Gener del 1937, appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | Rectangular violet ink municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Castellserà, hand-applied to the reverse as authentication. |
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Castellserà is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia with a population that barely exceeded a thousand during the Civil War years. Like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities in 1936–37, the Ajuntament issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed under wartime pressure and hoarding. These local emissions — generically called "moneda municipal" or "bitllets locals" — were a patchwork solution, legally tolerated by the Generalitat de Catalunya through a series of decrees that gave municipal councils the authority to issue small-denomination notes.
Grafos, operating under collectivization by its workers after July 1936, handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions. The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device — a common shortcut when a small town lacked the means or time for more elaborate security printing.