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1 Peseta Guissona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guissona (Municipality of Guissona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GUISSONA VAL PER UNA PESSETA Emissió feta segons acord pres per L'Ajuntament en sessió del 2 d'Agost del 1937. GUISSONA, Agost del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Guissona Valid for One Peseta Issue made in accordance with an agreement reached by the City Council in session on August 2, 1937. Guissona, August 1937) |
| Reverse description | A rural vignette occupies the upper portion of the reverse, with a peasant plowing a field drawn by two horses and a farmhouse visible in the background, evoking the agricultural character of the region. Below, a Renaissance-style fountain with a central column and four water spouts is rendered, symbolising the municipality's water abundance. Agricultural implements and produce frame the composition, and the mandatory local currency legend is set in bold letterpress at centre. |
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Guissona is a small market town in the Segarra comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coin effectively collapsed. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency emissions, which is the only reason a town of this size had the legal standing to circulate paper at all.
Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. handled a substantial volume of these municipal emissions out of Barcelona, which means the print quality is competent but the notes were produced at speed and in modest quantities. Turró catalogues this as #1227.