1 Peseta Salardú

Salardú is a tiny village in the Val d'Aran, the Pyrenean valley that declared its own brief independence from Franco's Spain in October 1944 — though this note predates that episode entirely, issued during the chaotic early period of Republican municipal currency. In 1937, with the peseta in disorder and small change effectively vanishing from circulation, hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities turned to emergency paper fractional currency under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Salardú, with a population then numbering in the hundreds, was among the smallest issuing bodies in the entire Republican zone.

Tipografia A. Benages in Barcelona handled a remarkable volume of these municipal emergency issues, becoming something of a clearinghouse printer for small-town scrip across the region. Turró catalogues this issue as #2250.