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1 Peseta Preixens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Preixens (Municipality of Preixens) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green ground with a central text panel enclosed within a decorative letterpress border of stylised thistle-leaf vignettes in black. The issuer's name appears at the top of the panel in bold script and block lettering, above the promise-to-pay legend and the denomination in large capitals. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the central panel, captioned 'L'ALCALDE' at left and 'FINANCES' at right. |
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| Reverse description | A rural vignette occupies the central field, showing a peasant ploughing with two horses in the middle ground and a sower striding in the foreground, with birds in flight above. The denomination and issuer's name are printed in black letterpress above and below the vignette. |
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Preixens is a tiny municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia — population in the hundreds even today — which makes any surviving local emergency note from the Civil War period a genuine rarity. Spain's fractured wartime economy forced hundreds of municipalities, including the most obscure, to print their own provisional currency after the Republic's coinage dried up from 1936 onward. Imprenta Miquel Pera in nearby Agramunt served as the practical printing resource for several of these small Urgell councils, which is why notes from different issuing municipalities in the area share visible typographic DNA.
Turró catalogues this as #2003 — deep into a sequence that reflects just how many Catalan municipal emissions there were.