50 Céntimos El Milà

El Milà is a tiny municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War — the so-called moneda de cartró or cardboard money — after the Republican government's coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. These local issues were authorised by the Generalitat de Catalunya and produced under wildly inconsistent conditions, often by whatever printer or even office supply was locally available.

The near-square format is characteristic of the smallest-denomination Catalan municipal issues, where card stock was cut to whatever was practical rather than any standardised specification. Turró#1499 is among the more obscure entries in the series — El Milà's wartime population was under a few hundred.