1 Peseta Bagà

Bagà is a small town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. These local emissions — collectively called "moneda local de necessitat" — were authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya from mid-1936 onward, producing an enormous variety of small-denomination paper scrip across the region.

Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and the 259 numbering places Bagà well into the mid-range of documented Catalan issuers. Survival rates for these notes vary sharply by municipality — smaller towns often printed short runs, and many were never formally redeemed.