1 Peseta Viella

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.