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25 Céntimos Tornabous
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tornabous (Municipality of Tornabous) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in violet-red and green on plain cream paper, enclosed within a single green rectangular border with decorative corner flourishes. The issuer's name appears at the top in large violet-red capitals, with the denomination rendered in bold green letterpress at centre; corner numerals '25' repeat at all four angles. Two manuscript signatures appear below the denomination text, accompanied by a circular violet official municipality stamp at left, with a handwritten serial number at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is largely unprinted, showing only faint ink show-through from the obverse letterpress impression and scattered staining; no intentional design or text is present. |
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Tornabous is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War after Republican authorities requisitioned metallic coin for the war effort. The resulting vacuum in small-change supply was filled locally — often chaotically — by ajuntaments, cooperatives, and trade unions acting independently.
The Turró catalogue documents over 2,000 such Catalan municipal issues from this period. That this note carries number 2521 places it among the more obscure examples, from a town whose total population in 1936 barely reached several hundred.