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1 Peseta Ullastrell
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Ullastrell |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ULLASTRELL L'Ajuntament abonarà la quantitat de UNA PESSETA del fons que per a garantir la present emissió de Bons, està dipositada a la Caixa Municipal. (Translation: City Council of Ullastrell. The City Council will pay the amount of One Peseta from the fund that, to guarantee the present issuance of Bonds, is deposited in the Municipal Treasury.) |
| Reverse description | Dark letterpress text over a green geometric guilloche underprint, with the municipal coat of arms — an eye motif flanked by palm trees — positioned as a central vignette. A quadruple-line border frames the composition, consistent in style with the face. |
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Ullastrell is a tiny municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, southwest of Barcelona, with a population that barely crested 300 in the 1930s. Like hundreds of other Catalan towns during the Civil War, the local council issued its own paper currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorizing municipal emergency notes — a direct response to the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage that followed the military uprising.
Turró catalogues only a handful of Ullastrell emissions, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce, as you would expect from a note printed in such quantities as a village of that size could require.