1 Peseta Viella

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.