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1 Peseta Ulldecona
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ulldecona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Montsià, Ulldecona, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress design centred on a vignette of the local castle ruins framed by two tall classical columns with scroll capitals, the horizontal banners to either side bearing the denomination. The issuing authority appears in a curved cartouche at the top, and the municipality name is set in bold block lettering within a rectangular panel at the foot. The printer's imprint 'IMP. MONTSIÀ' appears in small type at the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL ULLDECONA UNA PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council Ulldecona One Peseta) |
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Ulldecona is a small town in the Baix Ebre comarca of southern Catalonia, and this note belongs to the vast wave of locally issued emergency paper money — known collectively as "moneda de necessitat" — that proliferated across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the central government's coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions all printed their own, and Turró catalogued thousands of them.
The Imprenta Montsià was a local press; production was entirely domestic, which shows in the modest execution typical of small-town Catalan emergency issues. Turró 2611 is not a rare number in that catalog.