50 Céntimos Manresa

During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted down, and the central government was too preoccupied to address the gap. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities filled the void by printing their own emergency paper fractions, locally authorized under a framework that was tolerant more by necessity than by design. Manresa's Consell Municipal was one of them.

Ramon Torra's print shop produced the entire Manresa fractional series. Turró 1421 is among the more frequently encountered of the local Catalan Civil War emissions, though genuinely uncirculated examples are harder to find than the survival numbers suggest — the small format and thin wartime paper punish handling badly.