50 Céntimos Artesa de Segre

Artesa de Segre is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during 1936–37, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coins — a crisis that hit hardest at the local level, where the Republican government's monetary disruption left markets essentially unable to make change. These municipal emissions were technically illegal under central banking law but tolerated, then eventually suppressed, as the Republican authorities attempted to reassert fiscal control over the war economy.

Turró's catalog documents over a thousand such local issues from Catalonia alone. Most survive in very limited quantities simply because the issuing populations were small and redemption was haphazard once the Nationalist advance through Lleida in April 1938 rendered them worthless overnight.