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1 Pesseta 2nd Issue
| Issuer | Consell General de les Valls d'Andorra |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange underprint with ornamental guilloche border framing the entire note. The Andorra coat of arms appears at upper centre, with Catalan-language text in brown letterpress occupying the central and lower fields. The overall layout is characteristic of a locally produced emergency issue with minimal pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field printed in blue with the full text of Decree No. 112 authorising the issue, set in Catalan-language letterpress. The Andorra coat of arms appears as a lightly printed underprint in the background, providing the sole pictorial element on an otherwise text-dominated reverse. |
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The Consell General de les Valls d'Andorra — the country's governing council, not a bank — issued paper currency in 1936 under the pressures of the Spanish Civil War, which had effectively disrupted coin supplies flowing through the Pyrenees. Andorra had no central bank and no real monetary infrastructure of its own; these notes were a practical stopgap, issued by a parliamentary body filling a role it was never designed for.
The second issue of the 1 Pesseta is notably scarcer than the first, with far fewer examples known to have survived outside Andorran institutional collections.