5 Centimos Guíxols; Bacallaneria J. Busquet

During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small coinage circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan businesses and municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency. Bacallaneria J. Busquet — a cod and salt-fish merchant in Sant Feliu de Guíxols — was among the tradespeople who filled that gap locally. These notes functioned as change tokens redeemable only within the issuing establishment, not as broadly circulating currency.

At 43 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest paper emissions of the conflict. The Arxiu Local census reference AL#2032 confirms its catalogued status, though surviving examples are rarely encountered — most perished in daily handling or were discarded once the war ended and peseta coinage returned.