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1 Peseta Puig-Alt de Ter
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Puig-Alt de Ter |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a circular vignette enclosed within a laurel wreath shows two clasped hands; to the left of the wreath, the municipal coat of arms of Puig-Alt de Ter, and to the right, a hammer and sickle. The denomination and mandatory-circulation legend are arranged around the central device in Catalan. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Puig-Alt de Ter is a small municipality in the comarca of Ripollès, Girona. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic collapse in small-denomination coinage circulation — hoarding and metal requisitions left everyday commerce nearly impossible — and hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by printing their own fractional paper currency under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya. This note is one of those emergency emissions, hyper-local in scope and almost certainly printed in tiny quantities for a population that numbered only in the hundreds.
The Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques in nearby Ripoll served as the practical printing hub for several small-town issues across the comarca, which accounts for the visual and material similarities found across the Turró series from this region.