50 Céntimos Carme

Carme is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War — a direct response to the acute coin shortage that followed the Republic's monetary disruptions of 1936–1937. These local emissions, collectively cataloged under the Turró reference system, were often produced by whatever printing resources the local council could access: a village press, a rubber stamp, occasionally just hand-written card stock.

At this scale of municipality, surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon. Carme's wartime population was small, production runs were limited, and most of these notes were superseded or destroyed once the Nationalist advance through Catalonia concluded in early 1939.