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1 Peseta La Granja d'Escarp
| Issuer | La Granja d'Escarp, Municipality of |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain red card stock reverse, bearing a single oval municipal stamp applied in blue-violet ink. The stamp carries the legend of the Consell Municipal Antifeixista de la Granja d'Escarp around its perimeter and encloses a small central device, serving as the sole authentication mark on this side. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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La Granja d'Escarp is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and this 1 Peseta note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional currency pieces — coneguts as "moneda de paper" or paper money of necessity — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government failed to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination metallic coinage. The hoarding of coins and the breakdown of normal commerce from 1936 onward forced even tiny townships to print their own scrip.
The thick card format was a practical choice when proper banknote paper was unavailable at the local level. The official stamp is what separated legitimate municipal scrip from forgeries — though the stamp itself varied in quality from town to town.