1 Peseta Bárig

Bárig is a small village in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, its local council stepped in to issue emergency fractional currency when Republican authorities failed to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coins and notes. The Consejo Municipal series was a direct response to acute change shortage — a problem so widespread across Republican-held territory in 1937 that the central government in Valencia was effectively powerless to suppress it.

Survival rates for village-level emergency paper from this conflict are highly unpredictable. Bárig's population was tiny, production runs were correspondingly small, and most circulated intensely until the Nationalist advance through the Valencia region in 1938–1939 rendered them worthless overnight.