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1 Peseta Gandesa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Gandesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text in black ink on pale pink card stock, enclosed within a floral ornamental border running the full perimeter. The central text block carries the issuing authority's declaration in Catalan, with the denomination numeral '1' repeated at left and right. The overall layout is characteristic of wartime municipal emergency issues, relying entirely on typography without vignette or pictorial elements. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, showing the plain pale orange-buff card stock with no printed design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the austere production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Gandesa, a small agricultural town in the Terra Alta comarca of Catalonia, issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War when the Republican government's chaotic monetary situation left municipalities scrambling to cover wage payments and local commerce. The Consell Municipal turned to Josep Bassa's print shop in nearby Mora d'Ebre — a strictly local solution to a strictly local problem, printed on whatever card stock was available rather than purpose-made banknote paper.
The Terra Alta region would become one of the most fought-over stretches of Catalonia during the Ebro offensive of 1938, and Gandesa itself sat at the center of the fighting. Notes from this series that survived did so largely by accident.