50 Céntimos L'Escala

L'Escala is a small coastal municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and its wartime municipal scrip belongs to the extraordinary — and largely unplanned — emergency currency phenomenon that swept Republican-held Spain from mid-1936 onward. When the Civil War disrupted coin supply and hoarding stripped small denominations from circulation almost overnight, hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments and consells municipals were left to solve the problem themselves. L'Escala was one of them.

Indústries Litogràfiques in Girona printed for numerous local authorities across the province simultaneously, which is why notes from otherwise unconnected towns sometimes share typeface choices and border treatments — the printer, not the issuer, drove those decisions.