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1 Peseta Vallfogona de Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallfogona de Balaguer |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field printed in black on a light brown background, with a geometric border framing the entire note. The central text block carries the municipal authority inscription and the denomination in Catalan, arranged in a simple letterpress layout without vignette or pictorial elements. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light brown field with black and orange-brown letterpress text. The denomination "UNA pesseta" appears in orange-brown at upper left and lower right, the year "ANY 1937" in black at upper right, and the mandatory circulation legend in bold black capitals across the centre; a handwritten serial number prefixed by "N°" occupies the lower left. |
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Vallfogona de Balaguer is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in Republican-held territory. The central government's inability to supply adequate coin led local councils — many with no financial expertise whatsoever — to print their own paper at whatever printer was available locally or regionally.
Turró catalogues this emission under his comprehensive survey of Spanish Civil War local issues; #2663 places it among the less-documented Lleida provincial pieces, where surviving examples are genuinely scarce due to small original print runs and wartime destruction.