50 Céntimos Castellbell i el Vilar

Castellbell i el Vilar is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly modest towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively authorized local authorities to fill the coin shortage caused by hoarding and metal requisitioning. The C.A.M. in Barcelona produced notes for dozens of these municipalities, which accounts for the typographic consistency across what were ostensibly independent local emissions.

Turró's catalog documents the series exhaustively; #696 places this squarely within the dense middle section of Catalan municipal issues, where surviving populations of individual notes can be tiny simply because the issuing town was small and redemption was rarely organized before the Nationalist takeover ended the Republican zone entirely.