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1 Peseta Llardecans
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llardecans |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in blue ink, with the coat of arms of Catalonia positioned at left within a geometric border frame. Text is arranged in a structured block across the face, identifying the issuing municipality and the bearer entitlement in Catalan, with the denomination stated in both abbreviated and full written form. Dated August 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL 1 PTA. AJUNTAMENT DE LLARDECANS La Depositaria d`aquest Ajuntament reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA pesseta. Llardecans, agost 1937. (Translation: Voucher 1 Peseta City Council of Llardecans The Depositary of this City Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta. Llardecans, August 1937.) |
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Llardecans is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible. The Consell Municipal — operating under the authority of the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree permitting local money — commissioned this piece from Imprenta Sol in Lleida, one of the regional printers that handled a significant volume of these municipal issues across the province.
Turró catalogues over 1,400 distinct local issues from this period; Llardecans' single-denomination emission is among the more modest, suggesting limited local need or a short window of actual use before Republican authority in the region collapsed in early 1938.