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1 Peseta Vilassar de Mar
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilassar de Mar |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress printing on plain paper with a geometric border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Vilassar de Mar appears as a circular vignette to the left, while the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged centrally and peripherally within the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VILASSAR DE MAR VAL PER UNA PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilassar de Mar Valid for One Peseta) |
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Vilassar de Mar was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued their own emergency paper currency during the Spanish Civil War, after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively acknowledged that the banking system had collapsed at the local level. The Consell Municipal — a body reconstituted under anarcho-syndicalist and leftist coalition pressure in many towns — needed small-denomination scrip simply to make change, coinage having vanished almost overnight into hoarding and melting.
C.A.M. in Barcelona handled an enormous volume of these municipal commissions simultaneously, which is why production quality varied so sharply across the series. Turró catalogues this piece as #2887, placing it well into the long tail of the Catalonian emergency emissions.