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1 Peseta El Vilosell
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vilosell (Municipality of El Vilosell, Province of Lleida) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ayuntamiento de Vilosell Vale de UNA peseta de circulación dentro la población, garantizado por la caja municipal. Vilosell, abril de 1937. El Alcalde, Francisco Ciurana Nº 034 A. G. Ilerda - Lleida (Translation: City Council of Vilosell Voucher of One Peseta circulation within the town, guaranteed by the municipal fund. Vilosell, April 1937. The Mayor, Francisco Ciurana) |
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| Signature(s) | Francisco Ciurana (El Alcalde) |
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El Vilosell is a village in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida with a population that hovered around 400 during the Civil War years — which makes this note one of the more extreme examples of hyperlocal emergency currency issued under the Republican zones' 1937 authorization for municipal governments to produce their own small-denomination paper. The practical gap being filled was the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation, hoarded or melted down within the first year of the war.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda, based in Lleida itself, printed a remarkable proportion of the Catalan municipal issues from this period — the firm effectively became a wartime utility press for the province.