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1 Peseta Alfarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alfarràs (Municipality of Alfarràs) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#100 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise blank red card stock, carrying a single circular municipal ink stamp applied at centre. The stamp impression, in violet, bears the legend 'AYUNTAMIENTO CONSTITUCIONAL - ALFARRAS' around its perimeter and contains a coat of arms or municipal device at its centre. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet municipal ink stamp applied to the reverse, serving as an authentication mark. |
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Alfarràs is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small change collapsed almost entirely in 1936. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the generic term *moneda de necessitat* — were typically produced in tiny print runs, often by the town's own administrative office on whatever card stock was available, and distributed within strictly local bounds.
Turró#100 places this among the better-documented Catalan issues, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce — small municipalities rarely printed in volume, and most circulating pieces were heavily handled before the series became obsolete.