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1 Peseta Vilademat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilademat |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on a light yellow floral underprint, the face is enclosed within a double-rule border. The text is arranged in a typeset letterpress style across the note, with the issuing authority at the top, the denomination stated in full in Catalan at centre, and a redemption clause below. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADEMAT 1 pesseta BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: City Council of Vilademat 1 Peseta Mandatory Local Currency Banknote) |
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Vilademat is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, Catalonia, with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including the smallest — issued their own emergency paper currency under the authority of local councils, the ajuntaments, when the collapse of normal coin supply made daily commerce impossible. These hyper-local emissions are collectively documented in Andreu Turró's reference catalog, the essential guide for this material.
At reference Turró 2772, this is one of the more obscure municipal emissions. Notes from villages this size typically survived in very small quantities; many were never redeemed after the Nationalist victory ended Republican local authority in early 1939.