1 Peseta El Masroig

El Masroig is a small wine-producing municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper money — *moneda local* or *vales* — to replace coinage that had been hoarded, melted down, or simply vanished from circulation by 1936–37. These municipal issues were born of immediate necessity, not monetary ambition.

The Turró catalogue remains the primary reference for this material, and Turró #1477 is among the more obscure entries — El Masroig produced very limited quantities, and survival rates for thick-card issues from small councils are uneven at best, with many consumed in daily use or lost after the Nationalist victory made them worthless overnight.