50 Céntimos Alamillo

Alamillo is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castile-La Mancha. Like dozens of similar communities across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, the local council issued its own fractional emergency currency — these cartones, often printed on card stock, filled the void left by the near-total disappearance of small-change coinage after 1936, as metal was redirected toward the war effort and hoarding accelerated the shortage.

The Gari Mon reference places this among the most localized emissions of the conflict, documented by Javier Gari Ramos's catalogue of Spanish municipal issues. Survival rates for these hyper-local pieces vary enormously; small councils produced short print runs, and most circulated hard before being discarded.