50 Céntimos Horta de Terra Alta

Horta de Terra Alta is a small municipality in the Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency currency (moneda de necessitat) to compensate for the near-total disappearance of Republican metallic coin from circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized this practice, but standardization was minimal — production methods, materials, and denominations varied from village to village.

At 35 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest paper issues in the entire series. The single security feature is a hand-applied official stamp, which on many surviving Turró-catalogued examples shows significant ink bleed or off-center placement due to improvised stamping conditions.