50 Céntimos Les Borges Blanques

Les Borges Blanques is the capital of Les Garrigues comarca in Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply stranded by the disruption of normal commerce. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the broader "Guerra Civil" municipal emissions, were produced with whatever printing resources were at hand, which in a small agricultural town meant the results were rudimentary at best.

The stamp security feature here is typical of the effort to prevent forgery at the purely local level — a handstamp applied by the municipal office rather than any purpose-designed security printing. Turró's cataloguing of this piece as #493 places it within a well-documented but frequently incomplete series.