50 Céntimos Pozoblanco

Pozoblanco was a small agricultural town in the Sierra Morena foothills that found itself well behind Republican lines after the July 1936 uprising. Like dozens of Andalusian municipalities that summer, the local Frente Popular committee faced an immediate coin shortage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost overnight as hoarding took hold across the zone. These fractional emergency issues were the practical response: locally authorized, printed elsewhere, and put into use fast.

The Barcelona imprint is telling. Bassa i Pagès was handling emergency paper for committees across Republican Spain that autumn, which means this note was ordered, shipped south, and authenticated locally — the handstamp and manuscript signature applied in Pozoblanco itself before release.