50 Céntimos Les Franqueses

Les Franqueses del Vallès was one of dozens of Catalan municipalities forced into issuing emergency fractional currency during 1937 after Republican-zone coins essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never produced in sufficient quantity. The Consell Municipal handled its own typographic printing through C.A.M. in Barcelona, a press that churned out similar local scrip for multiple town councils simultaneously, which accounts for the visibly modest production quality common across this series.

Turró catalogues over a thousand such municipal emissions from the Civil War period. That this one survives at all is partly luck — many were redeemed and pulped, others lost when the Francoist advance disrupted local administration entirely.