50 Céntimos Moratalla

Moratalla is a small municipality in the Murcia region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local emissions, known as *moneda local* or *billetes de necesidad*, filled an immediate practical gap. The Ayuntamiento had no access to a professional printer and no obligation to meet central bank standards.

The Gari Mon reference places this within the documented Murcian local issues, though survival rates for Moratalla material are low — the town's wartime administration left thin archival traces.