1 Peseta Helechal

Helechal is a small rural municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of collectivized villages in the Republican zone issued their own local scrip when coins disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply lost to the disruption of war. These colectividad notes functioned as wage tokens and exchange medium within a single village economy, often printed on whatever paper was available and authorized by a stamp rather than engraved by any professional printer.

The Gari reference number is unassigned, which typically indicates the piece was documented too late or too incompletely to receive a full catalog entry — not unusual for Extremaduran village issues, which survive in tiny quantities and were never systematically collected.