50 Céntimos Vilassar de Dalt

Vilassar de Dalt is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it resorted to printing its own fractional currency when the Republican government's coin shortage became acute after 1936. The hoarding and melting of silver and copper left retail trade nearly paralyzed, and municipal emergency notes — printed locally, valid only within the issuing town — were the practical answer. Turró catalogues over three thousand such emissions from across Spain; this is one of them.

Printed by a local press rather than a Barcelona commercial printer, which was common for the smaller Maresme towns.