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2 Pesetas Puigvert
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Puigvert de Lleida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher executed in dark blue ink over a light blue dotted underprint, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. The central text block, set in varying typefaces, bears the issuing authority, the denomination in full, and a legal tender clause in Catalan asserting mandatory circulation within the municipality under the guarantee of the Ajuntament. The date and place of issue appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PUIGVERT VAL DE DOS PESSETAS circulació obligatòria dintre de la població, garantit per l`Ajuntament. Puigvert, abril del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Puigvert Voucher of Two Pesetas mandatory circulation in the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Puigvert, April 1937) |
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Puigvert de Lleida was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued their own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed almost entirely in 1936–37. The Consell Municipal — by that point functioning under anarcho-syndicalist influence across much of rural Lleida province — had essentially no other option. Local commerce needed a medium of exchange, and Madrid was not providing one.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda, a Lleida-based print shop, produced notes for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which gives the Turró-catalogued Puigvert issues a certain regional coherence. The thick card stock was a practical choice — thinner paper wore out quickly under the handling these small-denomination notes received in daily market use.