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1 Peseta Vimbodí
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vimbodí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Orange underprint with ornamental perimeter frame in dark blue letterpress. A vignette of a young peasant appears at left and an elderly peasant at right, symbolising the fullness and decline of life, flanking the local municipal coat of arms at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | Emissió acordada per l`Ajuntament en sessió del dia 5 d`Agost del 1937 PESSETA 1 PESSETA (Translation: Issue agreed by the City Council in session on August 5, 1937 Peseta 1 Peseta) |
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Vimbodí is a small municipality in Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency — paper moneda local — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation after 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply small change forced municipalities down to the village level to improvise their own solutions, with wildly inconsistent results in quality and longevity.
Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc handled production for several local councils in the comarca, which gives notes from this area a degree of typographic consistency unusual among wartime municipals. Most of these issues were rendered worthless within two years of printing.