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1 Peseta Viella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viella (Municipality of Vielha) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow-ochre card stock, bearing a large oval municipal stamp applied in violet ink. The stamp is inverted on this side and encloses a heraldic coat of arms vignette at centre, surrounded by the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE VIELLA' with a small star ornament. |
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| Protection description | Red oval municipal validation stamp on obverse; violet oval municipal seal stamp on reverse, both applied as authentication marks |
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Viella — today spelled Vielha — is the capital of the Val d'Aran, a Pyrenean valley that remained Loyalist territory during the Spanish Civil War despite its geographic isolation. Like dozens of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities cut off from adequate coin supply after 1936, the Ajuntament de Viella resorted to locally issued emergency currency to keep small transactions functioning. These municipal pieces, collectively catalogued under the broader *moneda local* phenomenon, were produced in enormous variety across Republican-held Spain between 1936 and 1939.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device — hand-applied, which means impression quality and placement vary considerably between surviving examples.