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1 Peseta Solsona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Solsona (Municipality of Solsona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow underprint background carries the municipal coat of arms of Solsona at centre, framed by a rectilinear border of perpendicular ruled lines printed in blue. The denomination numeral '1' and all textual legends are rendered in blue letterpress, with the issuing authority name, bond value, and mandatory circulation clause distributed across the face in a structured typographic layout. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNA pesseta UNA pesseta |
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Solsona is a small cathedral city in the Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper after the Republic's central coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. Hoarding of metallic currency — driven by wartime uncertainty and the silver and copper content of coins — left everyday commerce essentially paralyzed. Local notes like this one filled that gap at the neighborhood level.
Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia. handled a substantial volume of these municipal emissions across Catalonia, which kept print quality reasonably consistent even as the political situation deteriorated. Turró catalogs over two thousand such issues from the period; #2387 puts this note well into that dense mid-war cluster.