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1 Peseta La Seu d'Urgell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Seu d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1938 |
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| Reverse description | Allegorical vignette of labour, commerce and agriculture centred on a female figure holding a mallet and resting against a cogwheel, with a haystack and Mercury's caduceus at her side. Denomination and redemption notice printed in Catalan within a plain text panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA AQUEST BITLLET HAURA DE PRESENTAR-SE AL REEMBORSSAMENT ABANS DEL 31 DESEMBRE DEL 1938 AJUNTAMENT DE LA SEU D'URGELL (Translation: 1 Peseta This banknote must be presented for reimbursement before December 31, 1938 City Council of La Seu d'Urgell) |
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La Seu d'Urgell sits in the Catalan Pyrenees on the Spanish side of the Andorran border, and by 1937 the Republican-controlled municipality was printing its own emergency fractional currency because the civil war had effectively destroyed the supply of small-denomination coins. The Ajuntament issued these notes under the broad framework of Republican local emergency currency laws that permitted municipalities to fill the gap left by hoarded and melted coinage.
Turró catalogs this emission at #2372, placing it within the enormous body of Catalan municipal war issues — a category now seriously collected but long overlooked by mainstream Spanish numismatics.