5 Céntimos Vilanova de la Barca

Vilanova de la Barca is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued its own emergency small-change currency during the Civil War after metallic coin essentially vanished from circulation in 1936. The Ajuntament Popular — the "Popular Council," reflecting the Republican administrative structure of the period — produced these locally as a practical stopgap, not as a political statement. Turró catalogs thousands of such issues; this one is among the more obscure, with no known print run figures.

The official stamp served as the primary authentication, a common solution when printing resources were limited to whatever a small town hall could access.