50 Céntimos Cuartell

Cuartell is a tiny municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of similarly small Spanish Republican localities, it issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the coinage shortage became acute enough to paralyze everyday commerce. These local emergency notes — known collectively as "guerra civil" municipals — were authorized under increasingly loose provincial oversight, with issuing bodies ranging from major city councils down to village supply committees like this one.

The Consejería Municipal de Abastecimientos designation marks this specifically as a rationing and supply authority issue, not the general municipal treasury — an administrative distinction that matters for cataloging purposes. Turró's Valencia province corpus documents hundreds of these, but many small-village pieces survive in only a handful of examples.