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1 Peseta Ponts
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ponts (Municipality of Ponts) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ponts Val 1 pta. El Caixer L'Alcalde No. (Translation: City Council of Ponts / Voucher 1 Peseta / The Cashier / The Mayor / No.) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA VILA DE PONTS (Translation: City Council of the Village of Ponts) |
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Ponts is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and this note is a product of the breakdown in small-change supply that followed the July 1936 military uprising. With centimos coins vanishing from circulation almost immediately, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — Ponts among them — issued their own emergency fractional currency under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya. The Ajuntament de Ponts series is among the more obscure of these local emissions, reflecting a community of only a few hundred inhabitants printing money out of practical necessity rather than any institutional ambition.
Turró's exhaustive catalog of Catalan Civil War paper is the primary reference for tracing these issues; without it, attributing minor municipal notes like this one would be nearly impossible.