5 Céntimos Albagés

L'Albagés is a small municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia. This 5 céntimos note is one of the emergency fractional issues produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's failure to maintain adequate small coin supply forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own local currency — legally sanctioned under a 1937 Generalitat de Catalunya decree that briefly gave local authorities the right to issue emergency scrip.

At 49 × 43 mm, the format is barely larger than a postage stamp, which reflects both the low denomination and the limited printing resources available to a rural village. Turró catalogues these municipal issues exhaustively; #57 places Albagés among the smallest and most obscure issuers in the series.