1 Peseta Pratdip

Pratdip is a small village in the Camp de l'Ebre comarca of Tarragona province, population in the hundreds even today. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree authorizing municipalities to issue their own fractional currency — the *bitllets locals* — produced thousands of these hyperlocal notes across Catalonia and the Levant. The Pratdip 1 Peseta is among the most obscure of them, printed by Imprenta Solé in Tarragona on card stock heavy enough to resist the rapid wear that destroyed most municipal issues within weeks of release.

The official stamp substituting for more sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures was typical of villages that had neither the budget nor the infrastructure for anything more. Turró catalogues it as #1993.