1 Peseta Montmaneu

Montmaneu is a tiny municipality in the comarca of l'Anoia, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. The fact that it issued its own emergency currency in 1937 places it among the hundreds of Catalan local authorities that printed moneda local during the Civil War — not out of ambition, but because the Republican government had lost practical control of small-denomination coinage supply and municipalities had no alternative.

The thick card stock was a deliberate choice across nearly all Catalan municipal issues of this period, intended to extend usable life in local trade. Turró's cataloguing of this piece as #1579 situates it within a well-documented but enormous series.