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1 Peseta Vacarisses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vacarisses |
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| Size | 65 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in ochre-tan tone, printed in black letterpress throughout. The face is divided by a vertical ruled line at left, with a serial number field marked 'N.º' in the narrow left panel. The main panel carries the issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT DE VACARISSES' at the top, followed by the denomination 'VAL PER UNA PESSETA' in bold display type, and the mandatory-circulation clause 'De curs obligatori en aquest terme municipal' in smaller text along the lower margin. A single-line rectangular border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain ochre-tan card stock with no text, imagery, or border elements. |
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Vacarisses is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Spanish Civil War. The central Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced local councils — ajuntaments — to print their own scrip, typically on whatever card stock was available locally. These issues had no backing institution and were theoretically valid only within the issuing municipality.
Turró catalogues this as #2626, placing it within a well-documented but sprawling series of Catalan local issues, many of which survive only in single-digit quantities.