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1 Peseta Guissona
| Issuer | Guissona, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | L`ajuntament de Guissona pagarà al portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA (Translation: The City Council of Guissona Will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Red letterpress text on plain paper, enclosed within an irregular ornamental dotted border matching the obverse frame. The central text block references the mandatory legal-tender status of the issue and cites the deposit held at the Banc Hispano Colonial, dated June 1937. A handwritten signature of the Conseller de Finances (Finance Councillor) appears below the printed text, accompanied by a violet municipal stamp. |
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Guissona is a small market town in the Segarra comarca of Lleida province, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute. These municipal vales were a purely local solution — accepted at the corner shop, the cooperative, the bar — and most were redeemed, lost, or simply discarded once the war ended.
Turró catalogued over 1,500 distinct Spanish municipal issues from this period. That density of local issuers is precisely why surviving Guissona examples attract specialist interest rather than general market demand.