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1 Peseta Guimerà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guimerà (Municipality of Guimerà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta A. Figueres, Tàrrega, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on white paper, entirely typeset without vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer name 'Ajuntament de Guimerà' appears at the top in serif type, underlined by a ruled line, followed by the designation 'Bono de Beneficència' in a lighter typeface. The denomination 'Val per 1 Pesseta' is set in large bold type at centre, with the place name 'GUIMERA', a serial number field, the year '1936', and the date 'Gener del 1937' arranged in the lower portion; a faint circular municipal stamp impression is visible at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Guimerà Bono de Beneficència Val per 1 Pesseta GUIMERA, Nº 1936 Gener del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Guimerà / Charity Voucher / Worth 1 Peseta / Guimerà, No. [serial] 1936 / January 1937) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation through hoarding — forced municipalities across Catalonia to issue their own emergency paper currency. Guimerà, a village of only a few hundred inhabitants in the comarca of l'Urgell, was among the smallest communities to do so. These local emissions, collectively catalogued as "paper moneda," had no validity outside their issuing municipality.
Printed by Antoni Figueres in nearby Tàrrega, the note shares its press with emissions from several other l'Urgell towns of the same period. Survival rates for Guimerà issues are low — tiny print runs, wartime disruption, and the post-war suppression of anything associated with Republican municipal authority all worked against preservation.