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1 Peseta Vilalba dels Arcs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilalba dels Arcs |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on yellow paper with dark blue-black ink, the left margin occupied by a vertical column of dotted lozenges enclosing the numeral '1' at top and bottom flanking a central striped rectangular block. A single-rule rectangular border frames the entire face. The municipal circular stamp of Vilalba dels Arcs is applied in red-orange ink at centre-left, overlapping the large bold cursive denomination 'UNA pesseta'. The issuing authority's name and bearer clause appear in bold block capitals across the upper register, with the serial number, date 'Març del 1937', and the manuscript signature of the head of the Municipal Council added below. The printer's imprint 'Imp. BASSA - Mora d'Ebre - Telèf. 36' appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consell Municipal de Vilalba RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE UNA pesseta El Cap del Consell Municipal, Núm. [serial number] Març del 1937 Imp. BASSA-Mora d'Ebre-Teléf. 36 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Vilalba / Recognizes in favour of the bearer / the amount of / One peseta / The Head of the Municipal Council, / No. [serial number] / March 1937) |
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Vilalba dels Arcs is a small municipality in Terra Alta, Tarragona — population then under a thousand — and like dozens of similarly sized Catalan towns in 1937, its council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's small-change supply collapsed under wartime strain. Turró catalogues well over two thousand such local issues, and the sheer number of them remains the most eloquent evidence of how completely the Republican monetary system fragmented at the municipal level.
Imprenta Bassa in Mora d'Ebre handled paper work for several Terra Alta councils during this period, which gives notes from the area a certain family resemblance in typography and stock.