1 Peseta Tarragona

During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-change circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency — billetes de necesidad. Tarragona's series was produced locally by Imprenta Sugrañes, a commercial print shop pressed into monetary service, which gives the notes an artisanal quality entirely absent from centrally issued wartime paper.

Turró catalogues this as #2435. The municipality's authority to issue extended only as long as Republican administration held the region — Tarragona fell to Nationalist forces in January 1939, rendering the entire local emission worthless overnight.