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1 Peseta Vila-rodona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vila-rodona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed text in dark blue ink on plain paper, with a geometric border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Vila-rodona appears at the upper left, alongside the issuing authority's full name and a Catalan-language promissory text acknowledging the bearer's entitlement to one peseta, dated April 24, 1937, by virtue of the council resolution of April 21, 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in dark blue letterpress ink on cream paper. The large denomination numeral "1" flanks the word "PESSETA" across the centre of the note, with the serial number printed above in the format "No [number]". Below the denomination, a two-line Catalan inscription defines the geographic scope of the currency's legal tender. |
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Vila-rodona is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coin that followed the Republic's monetary disruption. These locally sanctioned issues were technically permitted under a 1936 Generalitat de Catalunya decree, though enforcement of standards was loose and the notes varied wildly in quality from town to town.
Imprenta E. Castells in Valls — the comarca capital, roughly 8 km away — printed several of these municipal issues for surrounding villages, which accounts for the relatively consistent production quality compared to notes run off on village presses. Turró catalogues over 3,000 such issues; this one sits toward the higher end of that count.