50 Céntimos Tornabous

Tornabous is a small municipality in the comarca of l'Urgell, Lleida province. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of fractional coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including ones with populations barely in the hundreds, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya to issue their own emergency paper money. Tornabous was among the smallest communities to do so.

Turró catalogues these municipal emissions systematically; #2520 places this note among the rarer village-level issues where surviving quantities are genuinely low, simply because the original print runs were tiny and redemption after the war eliminated most of them.