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1 Peseta Preixens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Preixens (Municipality of Preixens) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta A. Figueres, Tàrrega, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on beige-yellow paper with a brown geometric border composed of rhombus and square motifs forming the perimeter frame. The central text block carries the municipal promise-to-pay legend in Catalan, with the denomination numeral '1' and the issuing authority name rendered in larger display type. A red oval municipal validation stamp is applied over the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE PREIXENTS LA DIPOSITARIA D`AQUEST AJUNTAMENT PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR UNA PESSETA MARÇ DEL 1937. (Translation: City Council of Preixens The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer One Peseta March 1937.) |
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Preixens is a village in the Lleida province of Catalonia that in 1937 had a population small enough to count in the hundreds. During the Civil War, the Republican government's collapse of normal monetary supply pushed hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many far larger than Preixens — to issue their own emergency paper. That this village issued at all, rather than simply relying on a neighboring town's notes, suggests either a determined local council or a particular shortage of small change in the immediate area.
A. Figueres in Tàrrega printed emergency municipal issues for several Urgell comarca settlements during this period, which kept production costs low and turnaround fast.