50 Céntimos La Riera de Gaià

La Riera de Gaià is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of emergency local currency — moneda local or paper de guerra — issued across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage in circulation by 1936–37 forced hundreds of municipal councils, many of them tiny, to print their own fractional notes simply to keep local commerce functioning. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona served several of these smaller Catalan municipalities, acting as a regional printer for what were essentially necessity issues.

Turró's catalog documents over 2,000 such emissions; this one at #2121 sits deep in that count.