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25 Pesetas Tivissa
| Issuer | Tivissa, Municipality of |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2487 |
| Obverse description | Typewritten emergency note executed in black ink on requisitioned official book paper bearing pre-printed red horizontal rules and variable printed text from the official register of the Comissaria General d'Ordre Public de Catalunya, Secció 9ª Sud-Secretaria. The obverse carries the handwritten or typed municipal legend, a round red municipal stamp of the Consell Municipal de Tivissa, and an authorizing signature. A black-inked page number from the original official book appears as part of the background text. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMITE DE TIVISA (Translation: Tivisa Committee) |
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Tivissa is a small municipality in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when the collapse of normal banking channels left the local economy without small change. These municipal notes — collectively documented under the Turró catalogue — were produced locally, often without professional printing equipment, and circulated only within the issuing community.
At 25 pesetas, this is a relatively high denomination for a municipal emergency issue, where most towns kept values low precisely because redemption guarantees were so fragile.