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1 Peseta Tírvia
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tírvia (Municipality of Tírvia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light green geometric underprint with a simple ruled-line border framing the entire face. The text is printed in brown letterpress, arranged centrally, with the issuing authority and denomination stated in Catalan. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipal ink stamp applied in teal-blue on the reverse, serving as an official validation mark. |
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Tírvia is a village in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of the Catalan Pyrenees with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including the most remote — to issue their own paper emergency currency under a framework loosely sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Tírvia's issue is among the most obscure of these local emissions.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device, a common solution when proper security printing was neither accessible nor affordable for a village of this scale. Turró catalogs these Catalan municipals exhaustively; #2471 places Tírvia at the extreme thin end of documented issuers by population.