50 Céntimos Dólar

The Consejo Municipal de Dólar issued this 50 céntimos note as emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. Municipal councils across Andalusia resorted to locally printed paper fracciones to keep everyday commerce moving — Dólar, a small village in Granada province, was one of hundreds of such issuers.

Papelería Lacoste in Almería handled printing for several of these municipal issues, which accounts for a degree of consistency in paper stock across otherwise unrelated localities. The sole security feature is an official stamp, applied by hand at the time of issue.