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1 Peseta Donzell d'Urgell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Donzell d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue and white note with a decorative border composed of a leafy vine motif running around the perimeter. A central vignette presents a general panoramic view of the town of Donzell d'Urgell, with the denomination and municipal name repeated in the surrounding text. |
| Reverse lettering | Ajuntament de DONZELL D'URGELL 1 PTA. (Translation: City Council of Donzell d'Urgell 1 Peseta) |
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Donzell d'Urgell is a tiny municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida province, and its decision to issue emergency paper money in 1937 was entirely practical — the Spanish Civil War had caused such a severe shortage of metallic coinage across Republican-held Catalonia that hundreds of local councils, down to the smallest villages, were authorized under Generalitat decree to print their own small-denomination scrip. These notes circulated only within the issuing municipality and were theoretically redeemable once the crisis passed.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda in Lleida printed for numerous Catalan ayuntaments during this period, which gives notes from this cluster a certain typographic consistency despite their different issuers. Turró catalogued over a thousand such issues, and this is number 913.