20 Centimos Cabrils

Cabrils is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when metal coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted down for the war effort, or simply never replaced by a Republican government stretched beyond its administrative capacity. These locally printed cardboard moneda local issues were technically illegal under Spanish monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.

Cardboard deteriorates. Survivors in any condition are scarce.