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1 Peseta Vall de Castellbó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vall de Castellbó |
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| Size | 63 × 38 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority and denomination are set in bold block capitals across three lines, separated by a short double rule. A circular violet municipal stamp is applied at left, and a manuscript signature appears at lower right beneath the printed title L'Alcalde. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border, with the obverse text showing through as a mirror-image offset impression. A handstamped serial number in black appears at centre, accompanied by scattered violet ink residue from the obverse municipal stamp. |
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Vall de Castellbó is a tiny municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida, and this note is one of thousands of hyper-local emergency issues produced across Catalonia and Republican Spain during the Civil War years, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local councils scrambling to keep daily commerce moving. The Consell Municipal had no meaningful printing infrastructure, which is reflected in the thick card stock — a practical substitute for proper banknote paper when proper banknote paper wasn't available.
Turró catalogues it, but the series is poorly documented in terms of surviving quantities.