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1 Peseta Vacarisses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vacarisses (Municipality of Vacarisses) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2628 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground printed in brown, enclosed by a toothed perimeter border. A large numeral '1' appears as a pale underprint at centre, overlaid by the bold denomination legend 'PESSETA' in uppercase letterpress. A serial number appears at the upper centre. |
| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] 1 PESSETA (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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Vacarisses is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War — the result of a near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation after 1936. These local emissions, collectively called "moneda de necessitat," were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree of late 1936, which gave municipalities the legal cover to produce their own paper to fill the gap.
Turró catalogues over 2,600 such emissions. That this one makes it to #2628 tells you something about just how granular the wartime monetary fragmentation became.