50 Céntimos Riudecanyes

Riudecanyes is a small agricultural village in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change forced local councils — ajuntaments and consells — to fill the gap themselves, producing what collectors now classify under the broader "guerra civil" emergency issues.

Imprenta Sanjuan in Reus handled printing for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the shared production quality across the region's local issues. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for these Catalan municipal notes, assigning this piece #2159.