50 Céntimos Albacete

One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes printed by Spanish municipal councils during the Civil War, when the Republican government's coin shortage became acute enough that towns issued their own scrip rather than make change with nothing. Albacete had strategic importance as the headquarters of the International Brigades from late 1936, which made its local economy unusually pressured — foreign volunteers needed to eat and pay for lodging, and small-denomination currency was perpetually scarce.

The Gari Mon reference places this in the catalogued municipal issues, though survival rates for these wartime cartones vary sharply by town. Albacete examples turn up less frequently than those from larger Catalan municipalities.