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1 Peseta Vilatorta
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilatorta |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILATORTA Una pesseta CURS OBLIGATORI L`intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament (Translation: City Council of Vilatorta / One Peseta / Mandatory currency / The attempt to disrupt the circulation of this Voucher will be severely sanctioned) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain green card stock surface with no text, vignette, or ornamental devices of any kind. |
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Vilatorta is a small municipality in Osona, Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These hyper-local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes de necesidad* corpus — were produced with whatever printing resources a town hall could lay hands on, which in Vilatorta's case meant card stock rather than proper banknote paper.
Turró's catalogue documents over 3,000 such municipal issues from Catalonia alone. The thickness of the substrate on this note is partly a practical choice — heavier stock survived pocket wear better than thin paper in short-circulation fractional use.