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1 Peseta Les Bordes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Es Bòrdes (Les Bordes Municipality) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset note produced on a typewriter, with the main text block rendered in violet ink and the face value heading printed in larger type at centre. The serial number is entered by hand in blue ink, reflecting the emergency production conditions of the Spanish Civil War period. No vignette or decorative underprint is present; the composition relies solely on letterpress text within a plain paper field. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely blank, consistent with the austere emergency issue character of this municipal scrip note produced under wartime constraints. |
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Es Bòrdes is a tiny municipality in the Val d'Aran — a Pyrenean valley whose Occitan-speaking population and administrative peculiarities have always sat awkwardly within the Spanish state. This 1 Peseta note is one of the thousands of small-denomination emergency issues produced across Catalonia and the Aran during the Spanish Civil War, when hoarding of metallic coin created near-total small-change paralysis in local economies.
Turró catalogs it at #480. Printed locally by Imprenta Escolar in the nearby town of Les, which handled emergency currency for several Aranese municipalities during this period — a rare case of a single small-town press serving as a de facto regional monetary printer during wartime.