50 Céntimos Bronchales

Bronchales is a small mountain village in the Sierra de Albarracín, and its wartime scrip exists because the Spanish Civil War severed normal currency supply lines to isolated rural municipalities almost immediately after July 1936. The Consejo Municipal — the local council — issued these emergency notes out of sheer necessity, not monetary ambition. Coins had vanished from circulation hoarded by a nervous population, and without fractional currency commerce at the local level simply stopped.

Gari Mon catalogs dozens of these Aragonese village issues; most were printed on whatever card or heavy paper the municipality had to hand, with no professional printer involved. Survival rates vary wildly — some village issues are known from single examples, others turned up in bulk finds decades later.