50 Céntimos Canet de Mar

Canet de Mar is a small coastal town north of Barcelona, and like dozens of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its council issued fractional emergency notes to address the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Republican zone throughout the Civil War. The Consell Municipal's authority to do so derived from a Generalitat decree permitting local bodies to fill the gap left by hoarded coin.

Indústries Madriguera was itself a collectivized printing operation — seized and run by its workers under the anarcho-syndicalist framework that restructured much of Barcelona's industry after July 1936. That a collectivized press produced official municipal scrip captures something genuinely strange about the Republican home front economy.