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1 Peseta L'Albiol
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de L'Albiol |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#68 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE L`ALBIOL La dipositaria Municipal pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA L`Albiol 11 de Setembre del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of L`Albiol The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer One Peseta L`Albiol, September 11, 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Emissió destinada a facilitar el canvi interior en ies operacions locals, en defecte de moneda fracmentària 1 PESSETA 1 (Translation: Issue intended to facilitate internal exchange in local operations, in the absence of fractional currency 1 Peseta 1) |
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L'Albiol is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency paper money after the Republican government authorized ayuntamientos to fill the coin shortage created by hoarding and metal requisitions. Turró catalogues these emissions exhaustively, and the L'Albiol 1 Peseta is among the more obscure entries — the commune's population in 1937 barely exceeded a few hundred, meaning original print runs were almost certainly counted in the hundreds rather than thousands.
Survival rates for these hyper-local Catalan wartime notes are genuinely poor. Most circulated hard within a single village economy and were never redeemed in any organized way once the Nationalist forces took Tarragona province in early 1939.