25 Centimos 502nd battalion

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.