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1 Peseta Torrelameu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torrelameu (Municipality of Torrelameu) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Unió Obrera, Balaguer, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Reddish-brown letterpress printing on a light yellow ground with ornamental guilloche underprint. The municipal coat of arms appears to the left, surrounded by decorative borders, with the issuing authority and bond text arranged in the central field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torrelameu 1 PTA. BON contra la caixa Municipal, de circulació local Juny del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Torrelameu 1 Peseta Bond against the Municipal Treasury, local circulation June 1937.) |
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Torrelameu is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during 1936–37, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the hoarding of metallic coin created a near-total breakdown of small-denomination exchange. These local issues — collectively known as paper moneda — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decrees of late 1936, which attempted to bring some order to what was already happening spontaneously at the municipal level.
The printer, Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, produced notes for several Noguera municipalities during this period, which occasionally creates attribution confusion among collectors. Turró's catalog remains the essential reference for distinguishing them.