50 Céntimos Tírvia

Tírvia is a tiny mountain municipality in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of Lleida, with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred souls. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local authorities — down to the smallest village — to issue their own emergency fractional currency to alleviate the catastrophic shortage of small change caused by silver and copper coin hoarding. Tírvia's issue is among the most geographically remote of all Catalan municipal emissions.

The sole security measure is a handstamp, which in practice varied in placement and ink saturation, making authentication a matter of knowing what the correct stamp looks like rather than relying on any mechanical consistency.