25 Céntimos Tiana

One of hundreds of emergency paper issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain small coin circulation forced town councils to print their own fractional currency. Tiana, a small coastal municipality northeast of Barcelona, issued this 25 céntimos note under the same legal framework that legitimized similar issues across Republican-held territory — the Generalitat de Catalunya's authorization of local currency from mid-1936 onward.

Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipals. The Tiana series is not among the rarer assignments in that corpus, but survival in any presentable condition is uneven — these notes were printed on whatever paper was locally available and circulated hard in economies where every small denomination counted.