1 Peseta La Llacuna

La Llacuna is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns it issued its own emergency small-change notes — *moneda de necessitat* — during the first years of the Civil War. The collapse of metallic coinage circulation in the Republican zone, driven by hoarding and wartime disruption, forced local authorities down to the municipal level to print their own fractional currency in 1936 and 1937.

Turró catalogues the La Llacuna issues under a tight sequence, and the 1 Pesseta on thick card stock is among the more physically robust of these local emissions — the card format was a practical hedge against the rapid deterioration that plagued thinner paper issues in daily handling.