Catalog
5 Pessetes 1st Issue
| Issuer | Consell General de les Valls d'Andorra |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL GENERAL DE LES VALLS D'ANDORRA VAL PER CINC PESSETES EMISSIÓ ACORDADA PEL MOLT IL·LUSTRE CONSELL GENERAL EN DATA 19 DESEMBRE 1936 (Translation: General Council of the Valleys of Andorra Valid for Five Pesetas Issue agreed by the very illustrious General Council on December 19, 1936) |
| Reverse description | Plain light background with the full text of Decree No. 112 printed in blue letterpress across six numbered articles in Catalan, authorising the creation and circulation of the Andorran currency vouchers. The place and date of issue — Andorra la Vella, 19 December 1936 — appear centred below the decree text, with the serial number in black at the bottom centre. A faint circular stamp impression is visible at the left. |
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Andorra had no formal banking system and no currency of its own when the Spanish Civil War severed reliable access to French and Spanish notes in 1936. The Consell General — the country's parliament, functioning here as its de facto monetary authority — issued this note as an emergency measure, one of only a handful of denominations produced at that moment. The series is among the rarest co-principality paper issues in existence; total print runs were extremely small, and much of what circulated was damaged or lost in the upheaval that continued across the border.
Pick lists only four notes for this first issue. That brevity says everything about the scale of the operation.