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1 Peseta Sasserra de Bages
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sasserra (Bages) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in red and black letterpress. A decorative red border of repeating scroll motifs frames the entire field, within which the issuing authority is set in bold black capitals across the top, with the face value rendered in large red lettering at centre. The guarantee text and date appear in smaller black type below, with a blue serial number at lower left and a faint violet official stamp at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PTA (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Sasserra is a municipality so small — fewer than 200 inhabitants even in the 1930s — that its decision to issue local paper money during the Civil War is less a banking act than a survival measure. The Republican government's decree of June 1937 authorized Catalan municipalities to produce their own subsidiary currency to cover the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage, most of which had been hoarded or melted down by that point. Hundreds of ajuntaments complied, producing notes of wildly varying quality and local character.
Turró 2299 is among the more obscure municipal emissions in the Bages registry. Very few circulated outside the village itself.