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1 Peseta Les
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Les |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuing authority CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LES / (Vall d'Aràn) is set in bold capitals at the top centre, followed by a handwritten serial number and the Catalan denomination legend Val una Pesseta in a larger typeface. The design is framed by a quadruple ruled border at top and bottom, with the printer's imprint Imp.Llib. – Güell Pobla de Segur at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Oval violet ink control stamp applied to the reverse |
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Les is a tiny municipality in the Val d'Aran, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency small-denomination paper when metallic coinage vanished almost overnight in the summer of 1936. The Turró catalog documents over a thousand such issues; this one, printed by Josep Güell in La Pobla de Segur — a commercial job printer, not a security press — reflects exactly how improvised the whole system was.
Official stamp was the only anti-counterfeiting measure deemed necessary. In a town of a few hundred people, everyone knew everyone's money.