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1 Peseta Viladrau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viladrau (Municipality of Viladrau) |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | A typewritten emergency voucher on plain paper stock, with all text struck in violet ink. The face carries the issuing authority's name and denomination declaration, authenticated by a manuscript signature beneath and the official circular municipal stamp of Viladrau applied in ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADRAU Val per 1 pesseta (Translation: City Council of Viladrau Voucher for 1 Peseta) |
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Viladrau is a small municipality in the Montseny massif, Girona province, with a population that barely reached 1,000 in the 1930s. That an ajuntament this size issued its own emergency paper currency is not unusual for Catalonia — the Civil War monetary collapse of 1936–37 prompted hundreds of municipalities to print local vales and notes when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled a significant share of these Catalan municipal issues, which accounts for a consistency of physical quality across otherwise unrelated issuing bodies. Turró catalogues over 3,000 such local issues; #2774 places this well into the documented but far from common tier.