50 Céntimos Corbera de Terra Alta

Corbera de Terra Alta sits in the Tarragona province and became one of the most devastated municipalities of the Civil War — the town was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, and the ruins of the old village were left standing as a war memorial. This note predates that destruction by roughly a year, issued when the Republican-controlled Consell Municipal was still functioning and the broader Catalan local currency emergency was in full force.

The emission belongs to the enormous wave of Spanish Civil War municipal fractional notes, driven by a near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation after 1936. Turró catalogues thousands of such issues; this one from a small Tarragona municipality is among the more obscure.