50 Céntimos Vilallonga del Camp

Vilallonga del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government authorised municipalities to print their own fractional currency to offset the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled a considerable number of these municipal commissions across the region — a local print shop doing emergency monetary work by necessity, not vocation.

Turró catalogued over 3,000 such issues, and survivorship varies wildly. Notes from villages this small often circulated hard within a tight geographic radius before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless in early 1939.