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1 Peseta Vidreres
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vidreres |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text on plain paper within a double-rule rectangular border; the municipal coat of arms of Vidreres is centred at the top above the issuing authority's name and a multi-line obligation text. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette, relying on the heraldic device and framing lines as the sole decorative elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VIDRERES VAL PER UNA PESSETA quantitat reembolsable a la caixa de la Dipositaria municipal, en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament de data 29 de març 1937. Emissió abril 1937. (Translation: City Council of Vidreres Valid for One Peseta amount repayable to the Treasury of the Municipal Depository, by virtue of the agreement of the City Council dated March 29, 1937. Issue April 1937.) |
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Vidreres is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed almost entirely. The Generalitat had authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a wave of highly localized scrip — some professionally printed, most not — that served purely practical purposes before being rendered worthless after the Nationalist victory.
Turró catalogued over 3,000 such emissions. That this one has a number at all is more a reflection of his exhaustive methodology than of any particular rarity.