50 Centimos Arenys de Mar

Arenys de Mar, a coastal town north of Barcelona, issued its own emergency coinage in 1937 as the Spanish Civil War severed normal monetary supply chains across Republican-held Catalonia. The central government's inability to maintain coin circulation drove hundreds of municipalities to mint their own low-denomination pieces, primarily in aluminium — a material chosen for availability rather than intrinsic value. Turró catalogued over a thousand such local issues from this period, and Arenys de Mar's output is among the more modestly documented.