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1 Peseta Mollerussa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mollerussa (Municipality of Mollerussa) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Mollerussa VAL PER UNA PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Mollerussa Valid for One Peseta) |
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| Protection description | Blind embossed circular municipal dry stamp applied to the reverse, bearing the municipal name and a central heraldic motif, serving as the primary authentication control. |
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Mollerussa is a small agricultural town in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of the thousands of locally-issued emergency fractional pieces that flooded Spain during the Civil War after the Republican government's chronic shortage of small change made municipal and commercial scrip a practical necessity from 1936 onward. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized Catalan municipalities to issue their own paper currency, which is why pieces like this exist at all — the alternative was no change whatsoever.
The dry stamp is the sole security measure, applied by hand with whatever official seal the ajuntament possessed at the time.