1 Peseta Castellserà

Castellserà is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly modest towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936. The Grafos print shop in Barcelona — operating under collectivization by its workers during the war years — produced notes for numerous Catalan municipalities simultaneously, which accounts for the generic quality of the printing across the series.

Turró catalogues these local emissions exhaustively; #764 places this note firmly within the documented Catalan municipal issues, though survival rates for small-denomination wartime Catalan paper are uneven, with many examples having circulated hard in impoverished rural economies before the Nationalist victory rendered them worthless in 1939.