50 Céntimos Artesa de Lleida

Artesa de Lleida was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively sanctioned local money production to address the acute coin shortage. The Ajuntament's series, catalogued under Turró 230, belongs to the broader phenomenon of moneda local that produced over a thousand distinct issues across Catalonia alone between 1936 and 1939.

Municipal issues from small Lleida province towns are among the harder series to complete — low original print runs, wartime attrition, and post-Franco suppression of Republican-era material all reduced survival rates sharply.