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5 Céntimos Santo Tomé
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Santo Tomé |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in terracotta-orange letterpress. A decorative foliate border runs along the top edge, above the bold serif inscription identifying the issuing authority and locality, with the denomination Vale 0'05 cts. set in large block type within a ruled panel at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock, left side bears a circular blue municipal stamp partially legible, with a handwritten serial number in dark ink occupying the right portion of the note. |
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Municipal emergency fractional currency from Santo Tomé, Argentina — likely issued during one of the recurrent small-change shortages that plagued provincial towns in the early twentieth century, when federal coin supplies routinely failed to reach the interior. Local councils across Santa Fe and Córdoba provinces resorted to cardboard tokens of this kind, printed locally in small runs with minimal security features and no central bank oversight whatsoever.
The Gari Monetary catalogue reference places this in a well-documented but thinly collected category. Survival rates for municipal cardboard fractionals are poor — the issuers rarely bothered to redeem them formally, and the material itself was never meant to last.