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1 Peseta Albesa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal UGT-CNT d'Albesa |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 1 pta. (Translation: Valid for 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain light blue-grey card stock, otherwise unprinted, bearing a large oval municipal rubber stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp legend encircles the oval perimeter and reads "CONSELL MUNICIPAL UGT-CNT - ALBESA". The note has a perforated border on all four sides. |
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Albesa is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia. Like hundreds of other Catalan and Valencian towns, its municipal council — operating under joint UGT-CNT control during the anarcho-syndicalist period of the Spanish Civil War — issued emergency fractional currency to address the near-total collapse of metallic coinage in circulation after July 1936. These local emissions were technically unauthorized under Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
At 48 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest paper currency formats produced anywhere in the conflict. The thick card stock was a practical choice — tiny paper notes disintegrated rapidly in daily use.