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1 Peseta Seròs
| Issuer | Seròs, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2351 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Vale por 1 pta. SERÓS (Translation: Municipal Council Voucher for 1 Peseta Serós) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain card stock, left largely blank save for a municipal validation stamp, typically applied in purple or blue ink, which served as the principal guarantee of authenticity for this emergency issue. |
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Seròs is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it exercised emergency monetary authority when the Republican government's supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely in 1937. These locally issued notes — often produced by a village printer with whatever card stock was available — filled a gap that the central government simply could not.
Turró's catalog documents thousands of such emissions; #2351 places this note squarely within that chaotic municipal series. The thick card substrate was a practical choice, not an aesthetic one — thinner paper disintegrated too quickly in daily market use.