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1 Peseta Ultramort
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ultramort |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black and yellow letterpress composition centred on a classical column vignette with two female allegorical figures acting as caryatids supporting a capital. The municipal name and denomination appear in bold black lettering above and below the central motif, with the Catalan-language legend arranged around the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ULTRAMORT UNA PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Ultramort One Peseta) |
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Ultramort is a hamlet in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona with a population that has rarely exceeded a few dozen — one of the smallest municipalities to issue its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War. The note belongs to the vast system of locally printed moneda de paper that flooded Catalonia from 1936 onward, when the collapse of metallic coin circulation forced even the most remote councils to improvise their own currency.
Imprenta Llach in Girona printed for numerous small Catalan municipalities during this period, which means design quality and paper stock vary considerably across the run. The official stamp is the primary authentication device — without it, the note had no standing.