1 Peseta Garriguella

Garriguella is a small village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded the region after July 1936, when the outbreak of the Civil War choked off the supply of small-change coinage almost overnight. The Republican government was slow to address the shortage, so individual municipalities took matters into their own hands — legally, under a framework that was only retroactively authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya in late 1936.

Imprenta Trayter in nearby Figueres printed for dozens of these small Alt Empordà municipalities, which is why the physical quality across Turró-listed notes from this pocket of Catalonia is unusually consistent. The official stamp is the sole security feature — entirely typical of the series and easily forged, not that counterfeiting a 1 peseta village note offered much incentive.