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1 Peseta Portella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Portella (Municipality of La Portella) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Red card stock with black letterpress printing throughout. The municipal name AJUNTAMENT DE PORTELLA appears in bold block lettering at upper left, flanked at upper right by a rectangular barcode-style ornament of vertical rules; two vertical double-rule bars frame the left margin. A large solid downward-pointing triangle vignette occupies the centre, below which the denomination legend Val per una pta. is set in a bold italic typeface. The printer's imprint Imp. Payà-Lleida appears in small text at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE - LA PORTELLA (Translation: City Council of - La Portella) |
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La Portella is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like dozens of Catalan towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorizing local authorities to print fractional currency to address the severe coin shortage. Imprenta Payà, a commercial printer in Lleida, produced notes for several of these municipalities simultaneously — the same press serving neighboring towns accounts for the family resemblance many Segrià-area locals share.
Turró catalogs this as a single type with no recorded varieties, which is consistent with a short-lived issue from a village of a few hundred inhabitants.