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1 Peseta La Sentiu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Sentiu de Sió |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 99 x 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red letterpress on a dotted underprint ground, with a triple green rule forming the outer frame. Municipal identification and denomination text are arranged in registers across the face, with the authorising text referencing the council agreement of 21 August 1937 set in a smaller typeface below. |
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| Reverse lettering | VAL UNA PESSETA Curs obligatori per a canvi (Translation: Voucher One Peseta Mandatory course for change.) |
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La Sentiu de Sió is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican authorities ordered the collectivization of coinage. The state had effectively absorbed metal from circulation, leaving local councils to paper over the gap with their own scrip — legal within the Republican zone but worthless the moment you crossed a municipal boundary.
Printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, the press responsible for a significant number of Lleida-region municipal notes during this period. Turró 2337.