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1 Pesseta 1st Issue
| Issuer | Consell General de les Valls d'Andorra |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 90 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet underprint with ornamental guilloche border framing the entire face. The Andorra coat of arms is centered at the top, flanked by the issuing authority legend in blue letterpress. The denomination and authorization text appear in Catalan below, with the date of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL GENERAL DE LES VALLS D`ANDORRA VAL PER UNA PESSETA EMISSIÓ ACORDADA PEL MOLT IL·LUSTRE CONSELL GENERAL EN DATA 19 DESEMBRE 1936 (Translation: General Council of the Valleys of Andorra Valid for One Peseta Issue agreed by the very illustrious General Council on December 19, 1936) |
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Andorra had no formal banking system and no currency of its own when the Spanish Civil War began disrupting coin supplies across the Pyrenees. This 1 Pesseta note — the first paper money ever issued by the Consell General — was a direct response to that shortage, produced to keep small transactions functioning in a co-principality that had operated on circulating Spanish and French coins for centuries.
The spelling "Pesseta" rather than the Spanish "Peseta" reflects Catalan orthography, the administrative language of Andorra. Pick lists only three denominations in this 1936 emergency series. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce; the total print run was small and wartime attrition was high.