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1 Peseta Vinaixa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vinaixa (Municipality of Vinaixa) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2908 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VINAIXA Val per 1 pta. (Translation: City Council of Vinaixa Valid for 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock, left blank at the time of printing and subsequently validated by a handwritten mayoral signature alongside an applied oval municipal stamp, serving as the primary authentication elements of this emergency issue. |
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Vinaixa is a tiny municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of locally issued emergency currency — the *moneda local* or *moneda de cartró* — produced by hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Ajuntament de Vinaixa, like most issuing bodies of this type, had no formal banking authority; the notes circulated on community trust alone and were theoretically redeemable only within the issuing municipality.
Turró's catalog documents over 3,000 such issues. Most were produced locally on whatever card stock was available, which accounts for the variation in thickness across surviving examples of the same emission.