50 Céntimos Golmés

Golmés is a small agricultural village in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. This note belongs to the vast corpus of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency — paper issued by local authorities after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitions. By 1937, hundreds of Catalan municipalities were printing their own fractional notes simply to make change possible at the market or the cooperative.

Local production at this scale meant no professional printer, no engraver, often just a rubber stamp or a basic press. Survival rates vary wildly — some issues are extremely scarce precisely because production runs were tiny and the notes were soon superseded or declared void.