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1 Peseta Os de Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Os de Balaguer (Municipality of Os de Balaguer) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Os de Balaguer 1 pesseta BON contra la CAIXA MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Os de Balaguer 1 Peseta Bond against the Municipal Treasury) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA. Emissió: 10 Octubre 1937 Venciment: 10 Octubre 1938 CURS OBLIGATORI PER CANVI (Translation: 1 Peseta Issue: 10 October 1937 Expiry: 10 October 1938 Compulsory Tender for Exchange) |
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Os de Balaguer is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republic's small-change shortage became genuinely paralyzing. The printer, Imprenta Unió Obrera — the Workers' Union Press in nearby Balaguer — was one of many anarcho-syndicalist-controlled print shops that filled this gap across the Republican zone, producing municipal paper for dozens of local councils simultaneously.
Turró catalogues this as a single type for the series. Survival rates for these hyper-local emissions are unpredictable; many were redeemed or simply discarded when the Nationalist advance reached the Segre valley in early 1938.