1 Peseta Albalatillo

Albalatillo is a village in the Monegros district of Huesca province that had fewer than 400 inhabitants when the Civil War broke out in 1936. Like hundreds of other Aragonese municipalities, its local defense council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-controlled areas faced an acute shortage of small change — the hoarding of coins and the disruption of normal banking had effectively emptied everyday commerce of workable money.

The Gari Montserrat catalogue distinguishes two types for this issuer; this is the B variant, differentiated most likely by paper weight or print run sequence. At 48 × 39 mm, it is among the smallest municipal issues in the Aragonese series — a physical constraint that pushed the design to its absolute minimum.