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1 Peseta Cervià de les Garrigues
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cervià de les Garrigues |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de CERVIÀ abonarà al portador UNA Pesseta Cervià, Juliol del 1937 Expedit per a suplir la manca de moneda fraccionària. (Translation: The City Council of Cervià will pay the bearer One Peseta Cervià, July 1937 Issued to make up for the lack of fractional currency.) |
| Reverse description | Typeset letterpress design in dark ink on plain paper, with two oval cartouches formed by dotted borders — one at upper right bearing the issuer name with a small floral rosette ornament, the other at centre right containing the denomination in large bold type. A third dotted oval frame at left bears a circular violet official municipality stamp, with the year "Any 1937" in letterpress at the lower margin. |
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Cervià de les Garrigues is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during 1937 when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Republican government had effectively lost control of fractional currency supply, leaving local councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, often with whatever printing resources were at hand.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such emissions. That this one gets its own number says less about its rarity than about the sheer volume of the phenomenon.