50 Céntimos Palamós

One of hundreds of emergency municipal paper issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage created a practical crisis for everyday commerce. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to print their own fractional currency — Palamós, a fishing port on the Costa Brava, did exactly that alongside dozens of other towns of comparable or smaller size.

Turró's catalog of these Catalan wartime emissions runs to thousands of entries, which gives some sense of how fragmented the system became. Most issues were redeemed or simply abandoned by 1939, and survival rates vary sharply by municipality.