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1 Peseta Menàrguens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Menàrguens |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, otherwise unprinted, bearing a single applied oval municipal validation stamp in violet ink, centrally positioned. The stamp comprises a double-line oval border enclosing the inscription AJUNTAMENT DE MENARGUENS with a small five-pointed star at the interior right. The stamp impression is inverted relative to the obverse orientation. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MENARGUENS (Translation: City Council of Menarguens) |
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Menàrguens is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These locally issued pieces — collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets locals* corpus — were stop-gap instruments, often produced in very small print runs on whatever card stock was available at the time.
The Turró reference places this among the documented emissions, but surviving examples from minor municipalities like Menàrguens are genuinely uncommon. Low initial quantities combined with near-zero collector interest at the time of issue meant most were discarded once the emergency passed.