10 Céntimos Torroella de Montgrí

Torroella de Montgrí is a small town in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small change that followed the collapse of normal coin circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to the regions forced local councils — many of them now run by anarchist or leftist committees — to print their own. These municipal emissions were technically irregular but widely tolerated.

Turró catalogues over 2,500 such Catalan issues, which gives some sense of how atomized the problem became.