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1 Peseta Seva

Issuer Ajuntament de Seva (Municipality of Seva)
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse lettering Ajuntament de Seva UNA PESSETA
(Translation: City Council of Seva One Peseta)
Reverse description Plain unprinted ocher card stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the utilitarian production standards of Catalan municipal emergency currency of the 1936–1939 period.
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Seva is a small municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally issued emergency currency that swept through Republican-held Spain after July 1936. With the outbreak of the Civil War disrupting coin supplies — silver and copper hoarded almost immediately — thousands of Spanish municipalities printed their own fractional paper to keep local commerce moving. Ajuntament de Seva was among the smallest of those issuers, which is precisely why Turró-catalogued examples from villages like this attract serious attention: print runs were tiny and survival rates brutal.

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