50 Céntimos La Jonquera

La Jonquera sits directly on the French border at the Col du Perthus, which gave its wartime emergency currency an unusual practical urgency — the town was a major transit point for refugees and supplies moving between Republican Spain and France throughout the Civil War. Local fractional notes like this one were issued under the decree permitting Catalan municipalities to produce their own small-denomination paper to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation after 1936.

Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona cooperative printing house with anarcho-syndicalist ties, responsible for a significant number of the Catalan municipal emissions of this period. The Turró catalogue records only a handful of surviving examples for most La Jonquera issues.