2 Pesetas Vallclara

Vallclara is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province — population well under a thousand even in 1936. That a municipality this small issued its own paper currency is less surprising than it sounds: during the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of metallic coin, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own emergency fractional notes, known as paper moneda local or "guerra" issues, simply to keep local commerce moving.

Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc handled several of these small-town commissions. Turró's catalog documents over 2,600 distinct municipal issues from this period — this note's reference number placing it well into that long tail of hyperlocal emergency printing.