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1 Peseta Granyena de les Garrigues
| Issuer | Comitè Front Popular Antifeixista de Granyena de les Garrigues |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note produced entirely by typewriter, with all text set in uniform typeface on an unadorned field. To the right of centre, a large circular municipal stamp in violet ink bears the legend of the issuing authority. A handwritten signature in ink, enclosed within an oval cartouche, appears in the lower right, accompanied by the partially visible typewritten legend 'El Alcalde'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Comite Front Popular Antifeixista Granyena de les Garrigues Val 1 pta. 1 peseta Novembre 1936 (Translation: Antifascist Popular Front Committee Granyena de les Garrigues Valid for 1 Peseta 1 Peseta November 1936) |
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Granyena de les Garrigues is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and this note is among hundreds of locally issued emergency currencies that proliferated across Republican-controlled Spain after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national money supply. The Comitè Front Popular Antifeixista — a Popular Front committee combining anarchist, socialist, and Republican factions — assumed municipal authority and issued fractional currency to keep local commerce functioning when coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation.
Turró's catalog documents the sheer scale of this phenomenon; over a thousand distinct municipal issuers are recorded for Catalonia alone. Notes from villages this small were printed in correspondingly small quantities and rarely traveled far.