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1 Peseta Vilallonga del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilallonga del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in blue on white paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative letterpress border composed of repeating geometric and arrow motifs at the corners and along all four sides. The issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL de VILALLONGA DEL CAMP' is set in spaced capital letters across the upper field, separated by a short rule from the bearer clause below. The denomination 'UNA Pesseta' appears in a plain rectangular cartouche at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL de VILALLONGA DEL CAMP Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador UNA Pesseta (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilallonga del Camp This Municipal Depository will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
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Vilallonga del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of similarly sized Catalan towns, its local council issued emergency fractional currency during 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply had effectively collapsed. These municipal notes — collectively catalogued as *moneda de necessitat* — were a grassroots fiscal response, not an authorized monetary policy. The Consell Municipal issued them on its own authority.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled production for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the visual similarities across several Camp de Tarragona emissions of 1937.