1 Peseta Aras de Alpuente

Aras de Alpuente is a small municipality in the Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation. The national government had authorized municipalities to fill the gap, but production quality and survival rates varied enormously — smaller villages often printed on whatever card stock was at hand, sometimes using rubber stamps and local typefaces.

Turró's catalogue of Valencian provisional issues documents this note under PV#215, placing it firmly within the broader regional emergency emission series. Notes from villages this size were circulated intensely and briefly, typically retiring within months as larger-denomination scrip or official Republican issues restored some normality.