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5 Pessetes 2nd Issue
| Issuer | Consell General de les Valls d'Andorra |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas |
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| Obverse description | A light green guilloche underprint forms the ornamental border framing the entire face, over which brown letterpress text and vignette elements are applied. The Andorran coat of arms is centred at the top, flanked by the issuing authority's name, with the denomination and decree date arranged in successive registers below. The overall design is typographic in character, relying on the interplay of the coloured underprint and dark letterpress impression for visual structure. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL GENERAL DE LES VALLS D`ANDORRA VAL PER CINC PESSETES EMISSIÓ ACORDADA PEL MOLT IL·LUSTRE CONSELL GENERAL EN DATA 19 DESEMBRE 1936 (Translation: General Council of the Valleys of Andorra Valid for Five Pesetas Issue agreed by the very illustrious General Council on December 19, 1936) |
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Andorra had no central bank in 1936 — it still doesn't, technically — so when the Civil War cut off reliable access to Spanish and French currency, the Consell General stepped in with emergency paper. The second issue of the 5 Pessetes was part of a tiny wartime emission that circulated almost entirely within the valleys themselves, supplementing an economy that had relied almost exclusively on coin.
Surviving examples are genuinely rare. The total print runs for the entire 1936 Andorran emergency series were minuscule, and much of what circulated was lost, destroyed, or simply worn out by the rough handling typical of crisis-period small denomination notes.