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1 Peseta Sort
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sort |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 81 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground note printed in red, with a perimeter frame of red stripe borders enclosing the central design. The vignette incorporates Republican allegorical symbols: a Phrygian cap, a laurel wreath, and scales of justice, with the coat of arms of Catalonia positioned at the upper left. Issuing authority and denomination inscriptions appear in red letterpress throughout. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE SORT PES-SETA (Translation: 1 Municipal Council of Sort Peseta) |
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Sort is a small town in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central banking system collapsed into practical uselessness at the local level. The Consell Municipal — the wartime municipal council — had no choice; without small change, daily commerce simply stopped.
Printing was farmed out to Josep Güell in nearby La Pobla de Segur, a town with an actual press. The only security measure was an official stamp, which varied in application and is frequently faint on surviving examples — a known issue across the entire Turró-catalogued local emission series.