1 Peseta Cálig

Cálig is a small municipality in the Castellón province of Valencia, and like hundreds of Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency small change — the Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coinage supply after 1936 forced local councils across Spain into improvised monetary authority they had never asked for and were largely unprepared to exercise. The Consejo Municipal simply did what its neighbors did: printed or had printed a local note, stamped it with an official seal to discourage forgery, and put it into circulation for day-to-day transactions.

The thick card stock construction is characteristic of many Castellón municipal emissions, where proper banknote paper was unavailable and local printers worked with whatever materials they had on hand.