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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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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA SEU D`URGELL UNA PESSETA SEGONS ACORD DEL 30 DE JUNY DEL 1937. (Translation: City Council of La Seu d`Urgell One Peseta According to agreement of June 30, 1937) |
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| 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 is a small Pyrenean town better known internationally as the co-suzerain capital of Andorra than as a currency issuer. In 1937, with the Spanish Civil War disrupting the supply of Republican coinage, the Ajuntament exercised the emergency powers granted to Catalan municipalities under the Generalitat's decree authorizing local paper money — one of hundreds of such issues flooding Catalonia between 1936 and 1939.
Turró catalogues this as #2370, placing it within the enormous documentary record of wartime Catalan municipal notes. These small-denomination issues were purely functional stopgaps, printed locally with limited means, and most circulated hard until the Nationalist takeover rendered them worthless overnight in early 1939.