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1 Peseta Organyà
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Organyà (Municipality of Organyà) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain field with black letterpress text and handwritten signatures over a lightly printed geometric underprint. The municipal name and denomination are set in bold block lettering, with the validation clause arranged in two lines across the centre of the note. Two manuscript signatures appear below the printed text, authenticating the issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`ORGANYÀ VAL per 1 PTA. (Translation: City Council of Organyà Valid for 1 Peseta) |
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Organyà is a small town in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency after the 1936 banking collapse disrupted the supply of small-denomination coins. These local notes — known as vals or moneda local — filled a practical gap when Republican-zone commerce ground to a halt without fractional coinage.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand such issues; Organyà's is among the more obscure, with survival numbers likely very low given the note's obvious fragility and the town's small population.