1 Peseta Los Gallardos

Los Gallardos is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican Spain, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Civil War had effectively removed coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipal issues, collectively catalogued under the broader "billetes de necesidad" category, were produced locally with whatever printing resources the town had at hand, which is why the production quality varies so dramatically across the series.

Gari Mon#693-C places this within a documented sequence for Los Gallardos, though surviving examples are genuinely scarce — small Almería province issues rarely made it into major collections, and most circulated until they disintegrated.