50 Céntimos Roses

Roses is a small coastal municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued its own emergency paper money when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local bodies to produce these sèries de guerra notes, but design, printing, and quality varied enormously from one municipality to the next.

Turró catalogs this as a single known type for Roses at the 50 céntimos denomination. The paper stock on surviving examples tends to be thin and brittle — a characteristic of the improvised local print runs common to smaller Alt Empordà issues.