1 Peseta Barberà de la Conca

Barberà de la Conca is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns it was forced to print its own fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely by late 1936. These local emergency issues — collectively known as moneda local or paper moneda — were produced under decree by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which authorized municipalities to cover the acute shortage of small change. The Ajuntament's issue was lithographed locally at negligible print runs, which is precisely why survivorship is uneven across the Turró-catalogued series.