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| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Ivorra (Municipality of Ivorra) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on orange card stock, the text is enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. The central inscriptions identify the issuing municipality and certify the note's validity, and an official municipal stamp is applied to authenticate the issue. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse of plain orange card stock, unprinted and without any design, lettering, or decorative elements. |
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Ivorra is a village in the Segarra comarca of Catalonia with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred souls. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing municipalities to issue emergency small-change notes — the Generalitat de Catalunya having its own parallel authorization — produced thousands of local issues, most in tiny print runs. Ivorra's 1 Peseta falls squarely into this category: hyperlocal fiduciary paper issued to solve a coin shortage that afflicted the entire Republican zone from mid-1936 onward.
The Turró reference corpus documents these Catalan municipal issues exhaustively, and Ivorra's placement at #1271 puts it deep in a long sequence of village-level emissions. Survival rates for these notes vary wildly — some villages printed dozens, others thousands.