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One of hundreds of emergency fractional issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when Republican Spain faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The central government's inability to supply adequate change forced local councils — down to very small towns like Artés, a textile village in the Bages comarca with fewer than 3,000 inhabitants — to print their own scrip, technically illegal under Spanish monetary law but tolerated out of practical necessity.

Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions out of Barcelona, which is why the printing quality varies less between towns than the designs themselves. Turró documents over 1,400 distinct Catalan local issues from 1936–1937 alone.