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1 Peseta Viella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viella (Municipality of Vielha) |
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| Size | 59 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain greenish-yellow card stock printed in teal-blue ink, with ornamental guilloche borders running along the top and bottom edges. The issuer name and denomination are set in bold letterpress type across the centre field, above a two-line clause of mandatory circulation. A large oval municipal stamp in red ink, bearing an armorial device, is applied over the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain greenish-yellow card stock, essentially unprinted, bearing a large circular municipal validation stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp carries an armorial vignette and the legend CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VIELLA around the circumference. |
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Vielha — the capital of the Val d'Aran in the Pyrenees — issued this note as a local emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War, when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible across Republican-controlled regions. Hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities issued their own paper in this period; the Ajuntament de Vielha was simply doing what local governments throughout the Republican zone were doing out of necessity.
The Val d'Aran's geographic isolation — a high mountain enclave with its own Gascon language — gave these notes an additional layer of locality that most wartime municipals lack.