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1 Peseta Viella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viella (Municipality of Vielha) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow-toned card stock with typewritten black text arranged in multiple lines across the face. A large oval red municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Viella is applied over the centre, bearing a coat of arms in its interior and circular legend around the perimeter. Rows of asterisks serve as decorative separators above and below the main inscription. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VIELLA VAL d'UNA pesseta de circulació obligatoria dins el terme municipal - Maig 37 (Translation: City Council of Vielha, Voucher of One Peseta of mandatory circulation within the municipal term - May 1937) |
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Vielha — the administrative capital of the Val d'Aran in the Pyrenees — issued this emergency local currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination money supply forced hundreds of municipalities across Catalonia and Aragon to print their own. The Val d'Aran's geographic isolation, tucked behind the Pyrenean watershed and accessible from Spain only through a long mountain pass, made dependence on Barcelona for coin supply practically impossible under wartime conditions.
Turró catalogs over 3,000 distinct Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues; Viella's contributes to the Catalan corpus as one of the smaller Lleida-province issuers. The thick card stock was a common substitute when proper banknote paper was unobtainable.