1 Peseta El Palau d'Anglesola

El Palau d'Anglesola is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's decree of June 1937 formally authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination notes (vales) to address the chronic shortage of coin — silver and copper had been hoarded or requisitioned almost immediately after July 1936.

Turró's catalog documents thousands of these municipal emissions, and the 1 Pesseta from El Palau d'Anglesola is among the more obscure entries, issued by an ayuntamiento with a wartime population of only a few hundred. Survival rates for issues from villages this small tend to be low — print runs were modest and most circulated hard until the Nationalist peseta absorbed the zone in early 1939.