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50 Céntimos Vilches
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Vilches |
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| Composition | Paper |
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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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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Vilches 50 Cents. ADVERTENCIA Este ticket tiene valor local y será nulo si fuese doblado. (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilches 50 Centimos Warning This ticket has local value and will be void if it is folded.) |
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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.