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1 Peseta Vilassar de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilassar de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and green note framed by an ornamental border enclosing a central diamond-shaped vignette with the local municipal coat of arms. The overall layout is typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in Catalan within the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de VILASSAR de MAR UNA Pesseta SEGONS ACORD DE 10 DE SETEMBRE DE 1937 (Translation: City Council of Vilassar de Mar One Peseta According to agreement of September 10, 1937) |
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Vilassar de Mar is a small coastal town north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued its own emergency paper money when the Republican zone faced acute small-denomination coin shortages from 1936 onward. The central government's inability to supply adequate fractional currency pushed this responsibility onto local councils, producing a vast and chaotic ecosystem of municipal notes — Turró alone catalogues thousands of them.
The Turró 2889 reference places this firmly within that documented series, though surviving examples vary considerably in quality given the rudimentary printing resources most small municipalities had access to.