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1 Peseta Vandellòs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vandellòs (Municipality of Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 76 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vandellós VAL per 1 PESSETA al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi (Translation: City Council of Vandellós Valid for 1 Peseta with the sole purpose of facilitating change) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain yellowed card stock, showing no design, text, or security elements, consistent with the economical production methods of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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One of thousands of emergency municipal issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia after the Civil War disrupted the normal money supply. The Ajuntament de Vandellòs — a small coastal municipality in the Camp de Tarragona — turned to Imprenta Solé in Tarragona to produce fractional notes when coin shortages made small-change transactions nearly impossible. Vandellòs had a population well under a thousand at the time, which means original print runs were almost certainly tiny.
Turró catalogued over 2,700 distinct municipal issues from this period, and Vandellòs sits near the upper end of that sequence — a reminder of just how atomized the emergency currency system had become by mid-war.