50 Céntimos Fruiters

One of hundreds of local emergency paper issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia and Valencia during the Civil War, when the hoarding of metal coinage — driven by wartime uncertainty — created an acute shortage of small change. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses were left to fill the gap themselves. The Ajuntament de Fruiters issued this 50 céntimos note under those conditions, with no central authorization beyond the tacit acceptance of the Republican government that something had to circulate.

Turró's cataloguing of these Valencian and Catalan locals runs to over a thousand entries — which gives some sense of just how atomized the small-change problem had become by 1937.