10 Céntimos Bellaguarda

Bellaguarda is a tiny municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Catalonia — population in the hundreds even now — and like dozens of similarly small Catalan towns, it issued its own fractional emergency paper during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone coin effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These hyper-local emissions, catalogued exhaustively by Turró, were produced by individual town councils with whatever printing resources were at hand. Quality varied wildly.

At 52 × 35 mm on thick card stock, this is essentially a hand-stamped chit rather than a banknote in any conventional sense. Survival rates for issues from villages this small tend to be low simply because so few were printed to begin with.