50 Céntimos Sils

Sils is a small municipality in the comarca of La Selva, Girona. This note was issued under the emergency paper money decree of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1937, which authorized Catalan municipalities to produce their own fractional currency — the bitllets locals — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage during the Civil War. Hundreds of municipalities did so, and quality varied wildly depending on local printing resources.

Turró catalogues this as #2378, placing it well into the documented range of these local emissions. Sils being a minor rural town, surviving examples are genuinely scarce.