50 Céntimos Vila-seca de Solcina

Vila-seca de Solcina was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of small-coin circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination coinage forced local councils — many of them operating under anarcho-syndicalist or socialist control — to print their own emergency scrip, valid only within their own jurisdictions. These notes were technically illegal under central government regulations but practically tolerated out of necessity.

Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled several of these municipal commissions in the province, which accounts for a certain consistency in paper quality and typographic execution across different issuing bodies. The Turró catalogue remains the primary reference for the full scope of Catalan Civil War municipal issues.