50 Céntimos Benavent de Segrià

Benavent de Segrià is a small municipality in the Lleida plain, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues to fill the gap, producing an extraordinary proliferation of locally-printed notes that varied enormously in quality and surviving quantities.

Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these wartime municipals. Many issues from small Lleida-province towns are genuinely scarce today, having circulated hard in tight local economies before becoming worthless at the war's end.