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1 Peseta Tornabous
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tornabous (Municipality of Tornabous) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in dark brown and blue on plain paper, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border with stylised corner flourishes and numeral '1' at each corner. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT DE TORNABOUS' appears in bold letterpress at the top, followed by the denomination 'VAL D'UNA PESSETA' in large type. The lower portion carries two manuscript signatures above the handwritten serial number, with a partially visible circular official ink stamp to the left. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain paper stock with a faint grid-like texture visible across the surface. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain small-change circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency paper fractional currency — locally known as paper moneda. Tornabous, a village in the comarca of l'Urgell with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred, was among them. These hyper-local emissions were authorized under a 1937 Generalitat de Catalunya decree that attempted to regularize what had already become chaotic grassroots monetary improvisation.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 distinct municipal issues from this period; that this one carries a number above 2500 places Tornabous among the more obscure emitters. Survival rates for village-level issues correlate directly with how quickly the town fell under Nationalist control — l'Urgell was overrun in early 1938.