0.50 Pesetas Guardiola de Bages

Guardiola de Bages is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the enormous category of Spanish Civil War-era *moneda local* — emergency fractional currency issued by Republican municipal councils after the July 1936 uprising caused small coinage to vanish almost entirely from circulation. Hoarding and the disruption of the Mint's supply chains left towns across Catalonia scrambling for substitutes. The Consell Municipal filled that gap with cardboard.

Imprenta Boixeda of Manresa handled production for numerous Bages municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across many Turró-catalogued locals from the comarca. The thick stock was a practical necessity — thin paper at fractional values simply disintegrated in daily use.