50 Céntimos Roques d'Osona

Roques d'Osona is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Osona, Catalonia, and this note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally issued emergency currency — known collectively as "moneda de necessitat" — that swept Republican-controlled Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising disrupted normal coin circulation. With silver and copper hoarded or melted almost immediately, hundreds of ajuntaments and consells printed their own fractional paper rather than leave markets to seize up entirely. The Generalitat eventually moved to suppress the practice, but issues continued well into 1937.

Imprenta Balmesiana in Vic served numerous small Osona municipalities during this period, producing notes for a cluster of nearby towns in short runs on modest equipment. Turró catalogues this as #2197.