5 Céntimos Montblanc

Montblanc is a medieval walled town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities it was forced to produce its own fractional paper money during 1936–37 when the Civil War drained metallic coin from circulation almost entirely. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized local emergency issues, but production quality and design were entirely a local affair — hence the use of Imprenta Gràfics, a press operating within the town itself.

Turró catalogs well over a thousand distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. That this one carries a Turró number in the 1500s places it among the more obscure entries in that corpus.