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1 Peseta Arsèguel
| Issuer | Arsèguel, Municipality of |
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| Size | 78 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text in violet-blue ink across the face of the note, with an oval municipal stamp of the Conselleria Municipal de Arsèguel applied by hand. The denomination of 1 pesseta is stated as a voucher (val) in the principal inscription. The austere, unadorned layout is typical of wartime Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues produced without access to professional printing facilities. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain cream-coloured card stock with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind, consistent with the rudimentary production methods of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency currency. |
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Arsèguel is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War years of 1936–1939. The Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to plug the gap themselves — these municipal emissions are collectively known as "Guerra Civil" locals or *moneda de necessitat*.
Turró catalogues this emission under #212. The thick card stock construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and improvised with whatever the local printer had on hand.