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1 Peseta Vilassar de Dalt
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilassar de Dalt |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Polychrome note with circular guilloche ornaments framing a central vignette of the Castle of Barberà. Denomination and issuing authority inscribed in the surrounding border, with the date of issue incorporated into the legend. |
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| Reverse description | Series and serial number printed in red at upper left, with a central vignette of the Can Boquet dolmen, popularly known as the Roca d'en Toni, enclosed within an ornamental border composed of decorative typographic elements. |
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Vilassar de Dalt is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War it issued its own emergency fractional currency when metallic coin disappeared from circulation entirely. The Republican government's decree of June 1937 formally authorized local authorities to fill the gap — Vilassar de Dalt's peseta note is a direct product of that legislation, produced by the Imprenta El Secretariat Català, a Barcelona press closely associated with Catalanist cultural organizations.
Turró catalogs this as #2883, one of thousands of entries documenting the extraordinary fragmentation of Catalan wartime currency.