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1 Peseta Seròs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Seròs |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain orange-salmon card stock with simple letterpress text in two lines of black ink centred on the face. No vignette, underprint, or decorative elements are present; the note's border is formed by a uniform scalloped edge. The austere layout is characteristic of hastily produced Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the same orange-salmon card stock and carries a circular blue municipal validation stamp applied by hand, partially legible around its circumference. A handwritten notation in blue ink appears across the centre of the note, and no printed design elements are present beyond the applied stamp. |
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Seròs is a small municipality on the Segre river in Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, its municipal council issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These consell municipal notes — collectively cataloged in the thousands across Catalonia — were hyper-local instruments, often printed by whatever press existed in town or the nearest neighboring one, and valid only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
At under five centimeters across, this note circulated among a population that in the late 1930s numbered only in the hundreds. Survival rates for Seròs issues are low simply because so few were printed to begin with.