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1 Peseta Figuerola d'Orcau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Figuerola d'Orcau (Municipality of Figuerola d'Orcau) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in blue ink with a rectangular perimeter border composed of alternating small circles and green squares forming a decorative frame. The denomination numeral '1' appears within the text block, with all inscriptions arranged in horizontal registers across the face of the note. The overall design is typographic in character, relying on text layout rather than pictorial vignettes. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA DE FIGUEROLA DE ORCAU (Translation: Mayoralty of Figuerola de Orcau) |
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Figuerola d'Orcau is a village in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida with a population that has historically hovered around a few hundred souls. That such a place issued its own currency in 1937 speaks directly to the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War — the Generalitat could not supply enough fractional coin, so hundreds of municipalities filled the gap themselves, each printing what amounted to hyperlocal scrip.
Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega handled a significant number of these Catalan municipal emissions, producing notes for multiple nearby towns under similar conditions. Turró catalogues this as #1010.