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| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Puigverd d'Agramunt |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | La Dipositaria Municipal pagarà al portador la quantitat de UNA Pesseta Puigverd d'Agramunt, 3 de Juny 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Puigverd d'Agramunt, June 3, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PUIGVERD D'AGRAMUNT Bitllet de circulació obligatòria en tota la jurisdicció Municipal. Venciment 3 de Juny 1938 (Translation: Municipal Council of Puigverd d'Agramunt Mandatory circulation banknote throughout the Municipal jurisdiction. Due June 3, 1938) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage created an immediate transactional crisis. The Consell Municipal of Puigverd d'Agramunt — a village of perhaps a few hundred inhabitants in the Urgell comarca — authorized its own paper currency rather than leave local commerce paralyzed. Printed by Miquel Pera in the nearby market town of Agramunt, the note never circulated beyond a handful of kilometers.
These hyper-local Catalan war issues were officially invalidated after Franco's victory, and survival rates correlate closely with village size — smaller municipalities produced fewer notes, and fewer were saved.