50 Céntimos Murcia

One of hundreds of local emergency issues produced by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republic's central government could not guarantee coin supply to provincial towns. Murcia's ayuntamiento printed fractional notes to replace the hoarded or melted copper and silver coinage that had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. These issues were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of sheer necessity.

The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these local Spanish issues, many of which were printed in tiny quantities on whatever paper stock was available, making condition highly variable across survivors.