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50 Céntimos Vilches
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Vilches |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed ticket on white paper stock, with black text enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border and solid black corner blocks. The issuer's name and denomination are set in bold uppercase lettering, accompanied by a warning legend below advising that the ticket is valid only locally and will be voided if folded. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on orange-tinted paper stock of coarse texture, entirely unprinted and devoid of any design elements, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Vilches is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia. Its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War — a common but chaotic response to the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936, when hoarding stripped small change from everyday commerce across Republican-held Spain.
Hundreds of Spanish municipalities printed their own emergency fractionals, most in tiny quantities and on whatever paper was available. Council-issued notes from minor Andalusian towns like Vilches were rarely preserved; they were utilitarian scrip, spent hard and discarded.