1 Peseta Sabadell

During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate supplies of small-denomination coinage prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency paper currency — moneda local — under a decree that formalized what many towns had already begun doing out of necessity. Sabadell, a significant textile-manufacturing city in the Vallès Occidental, was among the more prolific issuers, producing multiple denominations through its own municipal print shop.

Joan Sallent was a long-established local printer, not a specialist security press. The absence of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting measures was a deliberate trade-off — speed and local control mattered more than security for notes intended to circulate only within a single municipality.