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1 Peseta Vilallonga de Ter
| Issuer | Vilallonga de Ter, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Ocher underprint with brown letterpress text. A panoramic vignette of the town occupies the central field, with the bell tower of the Church of Sant Martí as the dominant architectural element. The issuing authority and bearer clause are set out in Catalan within the surrounding text. |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPI DE VILALLONGA DE TER El Consell Municipal de Vilallonga de Ter reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA (Translation: Municipality of Vilallonga de Ter The Municipal Council of Vilallonga de Ter recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local economies effectively frozen. Vilallonga de Ter is a minor Ripollès village on the upper Ter river, and its recourse to the Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques in Ripoll — a workers' cooperative print shop operating under wartime collectivization — was entirely typical of how Republican Catalonia improvised its way through the crisis.
Turró catalogues these extensively; survival rates vary sharply by municipality, with smaller villages often producing tiny runs that were redeemed and destroyed within months.