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1 Peseta Horta de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Horta de Terra Alta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Off-white card stock with a light guilloche underprint across the entire face. Letterpress-printed text in red carries the issuing authority CONSELL MUNICIPAL de HORTA DE TERRA ALTA at the top, with the denomination VAL 1 PESSETA in large characters occupying the lower half. The design is wholly typographic, with no vignette, pictorial element, or ornamental border. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipal stamp in blue-violet ink applied to the reverse, reading CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE HORTA DE TERRA ALTA with star dividers. |
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Horta de Terra Alta is a small municipality in southern Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities authorized local councils to print small-denomination notes to ease the acute coin shortage of 1936–37. The Turró catalog documents over a thousand such issues; #1232 places this squarely in the middle of that sprawl.
At 35 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest physical formats in the entire wartime Catalan municipal series. The official stamp served as the primary authentication device — a practical solution when printing infrastructure was minimal and forgery of one-peseta municipal scrip was hardly worth the effort.