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1 Peseta Viladecans
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Viladecans |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome note with blue letterpress text framed by the same fruit-motif border used on the obverse. The central vignette portrays a farmer ploughing a field with two horses, set against a bright rising sun, evoking the agricultural character of the Viladecans region. Denomination and mandatory local-circulation notice appear in Catalan text. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VILADECANS UNA PESSETA AQUEST BITLLET ÉS DE ÚS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: Municipal Council of Viladecans One Peseta This banknote is mandatory local use) |
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Viladecans, a small municipality south of Barcelona, issued local emergency currency during the Civil War when the Republican government's supply of small-denomination coins effectively collapsed. The Consell Municipal — like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-zone councils — filled that gap with paper fractional notes, authorized under a General de Catalunya framework that gave local bodies temporary issuing authority in 1937.
Imprenta Rieusset was one of Barcelona's more capable commercial printers and handled a substantial volume of these municipal emissions. Whether that implies any quality control beyond the norm for the series, the Turró catalogue — the standard reference for this material — suggests otherwise.