1 Peseta Camuñas

Camuñas is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small change in paper form when coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The Nationalist advance through Castilla-La Mancha disrupted supply chains and drove metal coins into hoarding almost simultaneously, forcing local governing bodies — many of them anarchist or socialist-controlled at the time — to improvise their own fractional currency with whatever printing resources were available locally.

The Gari Monetary catalogue entry for this piece reflects how thoroughly these municipal emissions were documented only decades after the fact, largely through collector fieldwork rather than official archives.