25 Céntimos Cornudella de Montsant

Cornudella de Montsant is a small wine-producing municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. Republican authorities had effectively lost control of the small-change supply, forcing municipal councils — many operating under anarchist or socialist committees — to print their own.

These local Catalan war issues, catalogued extensively by Turró, were produced under chaotic conditions and in small quantities. Survival rates vary sharply even within a single municipality's series.