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2 Pesetas El Vilosell
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vilosell (Municipality of El Vilosell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the note is framed by a rectangular geometric border with a repeating dashed and linear pattern. The heading 'Ayuntamiento de Vilosell' appears in bold serif lettering at the top, with the denomination '2' in large numerals at each lateral margin. The central text states the voucher value and municipal guarantee, with the date 'abril de 1937', the mayor's title 'El Alcalde', a manuscript signature, a serial number at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'A. G. Ilerda – Lleida' at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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El Vilosell is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s — which makes the existence of locally issued emergency currency here entirely typical of the Republican zone during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage forced thousands of municipalities to print their own. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized this system in 1937, and Arts Gràfiques Ilerda in Lleida supplied many of the smaller Catalan municipalities with printed scrip during that period.
Turró catalogues over 3,000 Catalan municipal issues; this one from El Vilosell is among the more obscure, and surviving examples are scarce simply because the village's total economic activity was minimal and redemption after the war was neither guaranteed nor widely pursued.