50 Céntimos Juià

Juià is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Gironès, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village of this scale issued its own paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain in 1936–37 forced hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities to print their own emergency fractional notes, a phenomenon so widespread that specialist collectors now track them by the thousands.

The Imprenta Confederal in Girona was the CNT-affiliated press responsible for a significant share of these local emissions across the province, which means this note was produced under anarcho-syndicalist administration during the height of the revolutionary period.