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1 Peseta Salardú
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Salardú (Municipality of Salardú) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pta. GARANTITZAT DE CIRCULACIÓ L'AJUNTAMENT DE SALARDÚ pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA Salardú, 1.er de juny del 1937 El Dipositari, El Conseller Primer, (Translation: 1 Peseta Guaranteed circulation The City Council of Salardú will pay the bearer One Peseta Salardú, June 1, 1937 The Depositary, The First Councillor) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-beige paper surface with no design, lettering, or security elements. |
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Salardú is a tiny village in the Val d'Aran, the Pyrenean valley that declared its own brief independence from Franco's Spain in October 1944 — though this note predates that episode entirely, issued during the chaotic early period of Republican municipal currency. In 1937, with the peseta in disorder and small change effectively vanishing from circulation, hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities turned to emergency paper fractional currency under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Salardú, with a population then numbering in the hundreds, was among the smallest issuing bodies in the entire Republican zone.
Tipografia A. Benages in Barcelona handled a remarkable volume of these municipal emergency issues, becoming something of a clearinghouse printer for small-town scrip across the region. Turró catalogues this issue as #2250.