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25 Centimos 502nd battalion
| Issuer | 502 Batallón, 28 División, 126 Brigada Mixta |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 95 x 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Lilac letterpress voucher with a central vignette of a military tank advancing in battle, flanked by olive branches at right. The denomination '25 CÉNTIMOS' appears at upper left and lower right corners. Unit designation and legal tender inscription are printed above the tank, with three signature lines at centre right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress reverse centred on a large oval guilloche frame enclosing the numeral '25' within a circle, with 'CÉNTIMOS' repeated on both flanking lobes. A banner at top bears the unit designation and serial number; a second serial number appears at lower left. Geometric radiating underprint fills the oval background. |
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Local military scrip issued by Republican Army units during the Spanish Civil War was never a coordinated system — it emerged from necessity when pay and small change broke down at the front and in garrison. The 502nd Battalion, part of the 28th Division's 126th Mixed Brigade, was one of hundreds of Republican units that printed their own low-denomination vouchers to keep daily transactions functional among troops.
Álvaro Lebrun's census of Spanish Civil War emergency issues documents this piece as AL#3639, one of very few surviving examples from this specific battalion. Unit scrip of this type was redeemed — when redeemed at all — through brigade-level accounting, and most was simply discarded or destroyed when units were reorganized or decimated.