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1 Peseta Pira
| Issuer | Municipi de Pira (Municipality of Pira) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink card stock, the note bears the issuer name 'Municipi de PIRA' at top, underlined by a ruled horizontal line. Below, the word 'VAL' appears centred in bold uppercase lettering, followed by the denomination statement 'Una pesseta' in a larger typeface at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock with no printed design, text, or decorative elements; the reverse is entirely blank. |
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Pira is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War is unremarkable — hundreds of Catalan towns did the same after the July 1936 military uprising drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. What makes these micro-issues interesting is precisely their fragility: printed in tiny quantities, used hard in local commerce, and rarely preserved, they survive in far lower numbers than their urban equivalents.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for Catalan Civil War paper, and a Turró listing confirms legitimacy for what can otherwise look like a novelty token.