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1 Peseta La Granja d'Escarp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Granja d'Escarp |
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| Size | 50 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on red card stock, the note is framed by a wide-line rectangular border with the issuer name underlined. The central text block carries the council name, a manuscript serial number, and the stated value in pesetas. |
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| Reverse description | Plain red card stock reverse bearing a large oval municipal ink stamp reading 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' and 'LA GRANJA D'ESCARP', with a central floral or heraldic device, applied in violet ink. A handwritten control notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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La Granja d'Escarp is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper currency when metallic coin essentially disappeared from circulation after 1936. These municipally-issued notes — known collectively as paper moneda local or vales — were a direct response to the hoarding and melting of coinage that followed the July coup. Turró catalogued thousands of such issues, most surviving in tiny quantities.
The thick card construction is typical of issues printed locally under wartime constraint, often on whatever stock was available.