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1 Peseta Massalcoreig
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Massalcoreig |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress issue on thick cream stock, printed entirely in blue ink. A border of small squares frames the note on all four sides, enclosing the issuer name in two lines with the town name MASALCOREIG underlined by a double rule. The denomination voucher text VAL per 1 pta. appears in large bold type in the lower half. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Massalcoreig is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese villages during the Spanish Civil War, its local council was forced to print emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Turró catalogue documents over a thousand such issues; #1480 places this peseta squarely in that provincial emergency series.
The thick card stock was a practical choice — light card resisted wear better than thin paper in small-denomination notes that changed hands constantly for everyday transactions. An official stamp was the primary — sometimes the only — authentication measure these councils could manage under wartime conditions.