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25 Pesetas Tivissa
| Issuer | Municipio Libre de Tivisa (Tarragona) |
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| Value | 25 Pesetas (25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue card stock bearing a single black circular rubber stamp applied at centre-right. The stamp consists of an outer ring carrying the municipal legend and an inner circle enclosing the denomination in two lines. The card has rounded corners and no printed vignette or border ornament beyond the stamp itself. |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPIO LIBRE DE TIVISA (TARRAGONA) VEINTICINCO PESETAS (Translation: Free Municipality of Tivisa (Tarragona) Twenty-five Pesetas) |
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Tivissa — the Catalan spelling used on the note itself, despite the Castilian "Tivisa" recorded in some catalog references — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional and small-denomination currency during the early months of the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's failure to maintain adequate coin circulation in 1936 forced town councils across Catalonia to print their own paper. These municipally issued notes, collectively known as moneda local or paper moneda, had no formal authorization at the outset — the Generalitat only moved to regulate them retroactively.
Thick card stock was the common solution when proper banknote paper was unavailable, and Tivissa's issue reflects that improvised production. Turró catalogues over 2,400 distinct municipal issues from this period; #2481 places Tivissa firmly in the middle of that sprawl.