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1 Peseta Viladrau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viladrau |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADRAU Quantitat reconeguda segons acord municipal UNA PESSETA Agost 1937 (Translation: City Council of Viladrau Amount recognized according to municipal agreement One Peseta August 1937) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text on a grey background, with a central vignette of the Fuente de la Oreneta, a spring fountain located on the outskirts of Viladrau. The denomination and mandatory local currency declaration are printed below the landscape view. |
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Viladrau is a small municipality in the Montseny massif, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, it issued its own local emergency currency when the banking system fractured and small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These ajuntament notes — produced by the thousands across Republican-held territory from 1936 onward — were technically illegal under central government statutes but tolerated out of sheer necessity.
El Secretariat Català handled printing for numerous municipal issues during this period, which gives the production quality more consistency than many comparable wartime locals. Turró catalogues this as #2777, placing it within a well-documented but still incompletely surveyed series.