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5 Pesetas Tivissa
| Issuer | Tivissa, Municipality of |
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| Size | 80 × 52 mm |
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| Obverse description | Handwritten and typewritten emergency note executed in black ink on repurposed official book paper bearing preprinted red ruled lines and the legend of the Comissaria General d'Ordre Public de Catalunya - Seccio 9a Sud-Secretaria, along with a black page number from the original official register. The obverse carries the note's own typewritten legend in black and bears a round red municipal stamp applied across the face. |
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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 province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coin collapsed after 1936. These local emissions — collectively catalogued in Turró's essential reference — were typically produced in extremely small quantities, often on whatever printing resources the local council or cooperative could access.
Survival rates for Tivissa issues are low. The notes were redeemed or destroyed once central currency was restored, and few examples escaped either fate.