1 Peseta Cervià de les Garrigues

Cervià de les Garrigues is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during 1937 when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Republican government had effectively lost control of fractional currency supply, leaving local councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, often with whatever printing resources were at hand.

Turró catalogues over a thousand such emissions. That this one gets its own number says less about its rarity than about the sheer volume of the phenomenon.