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1 Peseta Puig-Alt de Ter

Issuer Consell Municipal de Puig-Alt de Ter
Year 1937
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Value 1 Peseta (1 ESP)
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Obverse description Partial panoramic vignette of the town of Puig-Alt de Ter, with the medieval bridge of 1138 spanning the Ter river rendered in the lower portion of the design. The surrounding text frames the central view, with the denomination numeral '1' appearing on the left side.
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Reverse description The Catalan coat of arms is positioned at the center, flanked on the left by a vignette of Jaume Espinosa's textile factory and on the right by an allegorical composition representing industrial, agricultural, and scientific pursuits, incorporating various symbolic objects. The denomination numeral '1' appears prominently within the design.
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Puig-Alt de Ter is a small municipality in the Ripollès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a wave of highly localized paper that was never intended to travel far — typically redeemable only within the issuing municipality, making survival rates directly proportional to how thoroughly the local wartime records were later suppressed or lost.

Turró catalogues this as #2026, placing it within the dense middle register of documented Catalan municipal issues. Given the town's tiny population, the original print run was almost certainly small.

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