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1 Peseta Vilallonga del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilallonga del Camp |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on a light grey geometric underprint with a wavy-line perimeter border. The central text block carries the full issuing authority legend and bearer clause in Catalan. Layout is typeset in letterpress style with no pictorial vignette. |
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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 Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues precisely because the Republican monetary system could not keep small denominations in supply. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant share of these local commissions, and the typography is workmanlike rather than ambitious — exactly what a small ajuntament could afford and receive quickly.
Turró catalogs over 3,000 such municipal issues; this one at #2806 sits deep in that list, which itself suggests how ordinary the circumstance of issue was, even if surviving examples are now scarce by default.