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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 lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PORTELLA Val per una pta. (Translation: City Council of Portella Valid for One Peseta) |
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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.