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25 Céntimos Torvizcón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torvizcón |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal TORVIZCÓN 25 céntimos Vale provisional (Translation: Municipal Council Torvizcón 25 Centimos Provisional voucher) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Torvizcón is a small municipality in the Alpujarras region of Granada province. Like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1936–37 when Republican-zone commerce ground to a halt due to a catastrophic shortage of small change — coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation almost overnight after the July 1936 uprising.
The Gari Mon reference is incomplete, which is unsurprising: municipal issues from villages of this size were often documented retrospectively and incompletely, with known specimens sometimes numbering in single digits. The official stamp served as the primary authentication device, making unstamped examples — if any exist — essentially worthless by the issuer's own terms.