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1 Peseta El Soleràs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Soleràs |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red and blue, with a geometric border framing the entire face. A circular vignette to the left contains the local municipal emblem within an oval medallion. Inscriptions in Catalan across the centre state the issuing authority, date of issue, and denomination, with the date 17 gener 1937 printed below the main text. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'EL SOLERÀS (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of El Soleràs) |
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El Soleràs is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, a comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable. These municipal notes, collectively known as bitllets locals, were a decentralized response to a real transactional crisis, not a political gesture. Arts Gràfiques Ilerda, based in Lleida itself, printed many such notes for surrounding municipalities throughout 1937.
Turró catalogues this as #2382, placing it within a well-documented but still genuinely scarce series — El Soleràs was a tiny issuer, and low original print runs are the rule for villages of this size.