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2 Pesetas 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 lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE TORNABOUS VAL DUES PESSETES Circulació obligatoria dintre la població. Garantit per l`Ajuntament Tornabous, Agost del 1937. NOTA.- Aquest VAL caduca el 31 de Juliol del 1938. (Translation: City Council of Tornabous Voucher Two Pesetas Mandatory circulation within the town. Guaranteed by the City Council Tornabous, August 1937. NOTE.- This Voucher expires on July 31, 1938.) |
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| Protection description | Red oval municipality stamp of the Ayuntamiento Constitucional de Tornabous applied to the reverse as a validating mark |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation within months of the July 1936 uprising. Municipalities across Catalonia responded by issuing their own paper fractional currency, legally authorized under a 1936 Generalitat decree. Tornabous, a village in the Urgell comarca with a population well under a thousand, was among the hundreds of tiny administrations that printed local emergency scrip simply to make change possible.
The Imprenta Crònica Targarina in nearby Tàrrega served as printer for several of these municipal issues in the comarca. The official stamp substitutes for any sophisticated security — entirely typical of the production constraints these small issuers faced.