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1 Peseta Begur
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Begur |
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| Size | 64 × 42 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note printed in black letterpress, with a central oval border enclosing the denomination numeral '1 Pta.' in bold type. The issuer legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' arcs along the upper interior of the oval, while 'BEGUR' appears in large capitals across the lower portion. Small ornamental scroll devices mark each of the four corners of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted card stock reverse in a greenish-beige tone, with a handstamped or typeset serial number positioned centrally, preceded by the abbreviation 'No' in italic type. |
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Begur is a small coastal municipality in the Baix Empordà district of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency — *moneda de paper* — during the early months of the Civil War after the Republic's silver coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. The Consell Municipal stepped in as issuer because there was simply nothing else filling the gap at street level.
Turró's cataloguing of these local Catalan issues remains the authoritative reference, and the 346 number places Begur within a well-documented regional sequence, though surviving examples of small-municipality issues from this series are consistently harder to source than their urban counterparts.