0.10 Pesetas Manuel

Manuel is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns across Republican Spain, it issued its own fractional currency during 1937 when the Civil War had effectively dissolved normal coin circulation. The hoarding of metallic coinage — particularly copper and nickel — forced municipal councils to print their own emergency scrip, a phenomenon so widespread that specialized catalogs like Turró now document thousands of distinct local issues.

The Gari and Turró references confirm legitimacy, but hyper-local issues from villages this size were produced in small quantities and rarely traveled far. Survivors tend to show heavy use or, paradoxically, none at all.