5 Centimos Cambrils; Josep Domingo

Cambrils is a small coastal town in Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it briefly became its own monetary authority. Josep Domingo was almost certainly a local merchant or business entity that issued this piece to address the catastrophic small-change shortage that followed the July 1936 uprising — the Republic's fractional coins vanished from circulation almost immediately as hoarding took hold.

AL#2730 places it within Andreu i Llamas's exhaustive cataloguing of Catalan local emergency issues. The thick card stock was a practical response to paper scarcity and the need for something that would survive repeated handling in a village economy.