Catalog
1 Peseta Viladrau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viladrau (Municipality of Viladrau) |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typewritten text in violet ink on plain white paper, with the issuer's name and denomination inscribed in a utilitarian layout typical of Spanish Civil War emergency issues. An official municipal stamp bearing the name of the issuing authority is applied to the face, together with a manuscript signature serving as authentication. The note's design reflects the improvised nature of wartime local currency production. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, consisting of plain white paper stock with no text, vignette, or other design elements. |
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Viladrau is a small mountain municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coinage collapsed in 1936. These local emergency notes — called "moneda local" or "val" — filled the vacuum left by hoarded and melted metal coinage, and were technically only valid within the issuing municipality.
El Secretariat Català handled a large volume of these small-town commissions out of Barcelona, which accounts for a certain consistency of production quality across otherwise unrelated Catalan issues. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for this sprawling series, with #2775 placing this note firmly within the documented corpus rather than the many uninventoried variants that still surface occasionally.