Garcia is a small municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin hoarding stripped the local economy of small change. The Ajuntament de Garcia's 5 céntimos note is catalogued in Turró under #1091, placing it within the vast emergency paper money phenomenon of 1936–1939 — but Garcia's output was minimal enough that surviving examples are genuinely uncommon rather than merely scarce by catalog convention.
Authentication relied on a hand-applied stamp, the typical security measure for issues of this type and scale. No engraved printing was involved.
Garcia is a small municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin hoarding stripped the local economy of small change. The Ajuntament de Garcia's 5 céntimos note is catalogued in Turró under #1091, placing it within the vast emergency paper money phenomenon of 1936–1939 — but Garcia's output was minimal enough that surviving examples are genuinely uncommon rather than merely scarce by catalog convention.
Authentication relied on a hand-applied stamp, the typical security measure for issues of this type and scale. No engraved printing was involved.