50 Céntimos Vilches

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.