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1 Peseta Penelles
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Penelles |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed entirely in red letterpress on cream paper, with the issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PENELLES (LLEIDA)' across the upper portion in bold capitals, above the large denomination statement 'VAL PER 1 PESSETA' with a black-printed serial number below. An oval municipal stamp in violet ink, bearing a vignette of a mountain landscape and the legend 'AJUNTAMENT DE PENELLES', is applied to the centre-left, with the depositary's manuscript signature at lower right and a validity restriction notice at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PENELLES (LLEIDA) VAL PER 1 PESSETA El Dipositari del Consell, SOLAMENT ES VALID DINS LA LOCALITAT (Translation: Municipal Council of Penelles (Lleida) Valid for 1 Peseta The Depositary of the Council, Only valid within the location) |
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Penelles is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal — the locally controlled governing body under the Republican administration — had the legal authority to authorize these emissions, though "authority" in wartime Catalonia was often more improvised than formal.
Printed by Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega, the same press served multiple nearby municipalities, which accounts for the family resemblance between several Urgell and Noguera locality notes catalogued in this period. Turró documents this as a single-denomination emission, suggesting the town's needs were limited and the print run modest.