1 Peseta Peñarroya de Tastavins

Peñarroya de Tastavins is a village in the Matarraña district of Aragon, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency emissions produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War when the coin shortage became so severe that municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives printed their own fractional currency. The Nationalist blockade of silver and copper supply chains left Republican-zone villages functionally without change, and the central government's repeated attempts to suppress local emissions — most notably the decree of September 1937 — were largely ignored.

Gari Montllor's catalog documents over a thousand distinct municipal issues from this period; that this note sits at #1099-C within that sequence gives some sense of just how fragmented small-denomination circulation had become by mid-war.