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1 Peseta Vilaplana
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilaplana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2867 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in reddish-brown ink on cream paper, enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border with decorative corner cuts. The issuing authority's name appears in bold serif capitals across the top, followed by a cursive legend acknowledging the bearer, above a wide horizontal band containing the denomination "UNA PESSETA" in large white letters on a ruled underprint. Below, the place and date of issue are stated in italic script, with two manuscript signatures in blue ink flanked by the role designations "L'Alcalde" and "El Dipositari". |
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| Signature(s) | L'Alcalde (E. Fené) and El Dipositari (Juan Martín) |
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Vilaplana is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced by Catalan town councils during the Civil War after the Republican government's Decree of 24 June 1937 attempted — with limited success — to regulate the chaotic proliferation of local paper money that had flooded the zone since 1936.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipals, and 2867 is a high sequence number, reflecting just how many councils issued their own fractional currency. Survival rates for Vilaplana's issues are low simply because the town's wartime population was small and redemption after the Nationalist takeover left most unspent notes destroyed or discarded.