0.50 Pesetas Albons

Albons is a tiny municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency fractional issues produced across Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. When the Republic's central government failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation — copper and silver disappeared through hoarding and wartime disruption almost immediately after July 1936 — municipalities down to village level were authorized, then eventually required, to print their own substitute currency. Albons had a population of a few hundred.

Turró's catalog documents the issue, but surviving examples are genuinely rare by any standard. Small-run local paper rarely made it past the immediate postwar.