1 Peseta Almansa

Almansa is a small town in Albacete province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local authorities to print fractional currency in 1936 to address a severe coin shortage. These municipal emissions were never coordinated centrally — each town designed and printed its own, often using local printers with no banknote experience. The Gari Montalvo catalog remains the primary reference for this chaotic class of material, which is why serious collectors still work from it rather than from any standardized corpus.