1 Peseta Beget

Beget is a hamlet in the Garrotxa region of Girona with a population that has rarely exceeded a few dozen souls. That a settlement this small issued its own emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the Republican zone experienced near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage by 1937, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including many no larger than Beget, authorized their own paper notes to keep local commerce moving.

Imprenta Anglada in Camprodon produced notes for several of these micro-issuers across the comarca. Beget's emission under Turró 330 is among the more elusive of the series, given the extremely limited local population that would have handled and preserved examples.