1 Peseta Colldejou

Colldejou is a village in the Camp de Tarragona comarca with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities of similarly modest scale, its town council issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper having rapidly disappeared from circulation after July 1936. These hyper-local issues were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework but designed, printed, and distributed entirely at the municipal level, often by local printers with no specialist banknote experience.

Turró catalogues this as #855, placing it within the dense sequence of Camp de Tarragona municipal issues. Surviving examples tend to show heavy handling — small councils rarely held reserves — but the thick card stock gave the notes more physical durability than the flimsy paper used elsewhere.