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1 Peseta Vallflorida
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallflorida (Municipality of Vallflorida) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Gràfiques Unificades, Granollers, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text on a light beige ground with an overall floral underprint pattern. The face bears the municipal issuer name and denomination inscribed within a central panel, flanked by decorative lettering and ornamental borders. Issue date and mandatory local currency status are stated in the lower inscription areas. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VALLFLORIDA Paper Moneda / Curs local obligatori VAL Una pesseta MES DE MAIG / MCMXXXVII (Translation: City Council of Vallflorida Paper money / Mandatory local currency Voucher One Peseta Month of May / 1937) |
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Vallflorida is a tiny municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even today. That such a settlement was issuing its own paper currency in 1937 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced acute shortages of metal and the central government could not adequately supply local needs. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by printing their own emergency notes, the so-called "moneda local" or "bitllets de necessitat."
Gràfiques Unificades in Granollers was one of several regional printers that handled a significant volume of this municipal work. The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for these emissions, and the 2657 number places this note well into the long tail of smaller, obscure issuers.