50 Céntimos Calasparra

Calasparra, a small municipality in Murcia, issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-held territories faced an acute shortage of metallic coin. The central government's inability to supply adequate small change forced hundreds of ayuntamientos to print their own — legally dubious, practically unavoidable. Gari Mon#393-B places this issue within a documented typology of municipal Murcia emissions, though Calasparra's output was modest by regional standards.

The sole security measure is an official municipal stamp, impressed rather than printed — which means condition of the ink transfer varies considerably across surviving pieces.