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1 Peseta Vilanova de Prades
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova de Prades |
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| Size | 90 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border of repeating scalloped and chain-link motifs. The issuer's name appears in bold block capitals across the upper portion, with the authorization legend in smaller text below, and the denomination 'UNA PESSETA' in large display type dominating the centre. The printer's imprint 'IMP. MESTRES-MONTBLANC' appears in small text along the lower margin, and a faint circular official stamp is visible at the upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILANOVA DE PRADES 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Vilanova de Prades 1 Peseta) |
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Vilanova de Prades is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred even before the Civil War. That it issued its own emergency currency at all is the point — the Republican government's 1937 authorization of municipal *moneda local* flooded Catalonia with thousands of hyper-local issues, many from places this small, printed at whatever commercial press was nearest. Imprenta Mestres in Montblanc handled a significant cluster of Conca de Barberà municipal issues during this period, which is why the print quality across them is recognizably consistent.
Turró catalogues this as #2852, deep in the long tail of Catalan wartime municipal issues.