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1 Peseta Vilada
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilada |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Dark pink ground with blue letterpress text and a triple-rule border framing the entire note. The Catalan coat of arms appears as a central vignette, flanked by the issuing authority inscription above and the denomination below. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNA PESSETA DE CURS LEGAL AL TERME (Translation: One Peseta of legal tender within the municipality) |
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Vilada is a small municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local notes — genericaly called "moneda de paper" — were authorized under a decree permitting municipal councils to fill the vacuum left by hoarded metal coin. The Consell Municipal issued under its own name rather than through a banking intermediary, which was typical of the smaller Berguedà towns.
Printed by Jaume Molins in nearby Berga, this 1 Peseta is catalogued under Turró 2765. Vilada's wartime issues are scarce survivors — the town's population was tiny, production runs were small, and redemption or destruction after the Nationalist takeover claimed most of what circulated.