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1 Peseta Guimerà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guimerà (Municipality of Guimerà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Guimerà Val per UNA pesseta JUNY 1937. Nº [serial] IMP. A. FIGUERES - TÀRREG[A] (Translation: City Council of Guimerà Valid for One Peseta June 1937. No. [serial] Printer: A. Figueres - Tàrrega) |
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| Reverse lettering | VILA DE GUIMERÀ (Translation: Town of Guimerà) |
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Guimerà is a village in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of other small Catalan municipalities in 1937, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the withdrawal of Republican silver and the collapse of small-change supply — a problem severe enough that the Generalitat eventually tried, with limited success, to impose order on the proliferating local issues.
Printed by Antoni Figueres in nearby Tàrrega, this note is one of the more localized examples of the type: a single-municipality issue from a village whose entire wartime scrip run would have been tiny. The official stamp is the primary authentication device, as was common when printing budgets allowed nothing more elaborate.