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50 Céntimos Els Torms
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Els Torms |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress print on cream-toned thick card stock in black ink. The upper portion carries the issuer inscription in bold block capitals, with 'ELS TORMS' set on a double rule and wavy underline flanked by two solid quarter-circle ornamental devices. A serial number appears vertically along the left margin, and the denomination 'Val per 50 cts.' is rendered in large bold typeface across the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal ELS TORMS Val per 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Els Torms Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Els Torms is a tiny municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia — population well under a few hundred even today. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republic's chronic shortage of small coinage pushed thousands of local councils to issue their own emergency paper fractional currency, and Els Torms was among them. These municipal notes, collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system, were legal only within the issuing locality, which in practice meant a handful of streets and farms.
At this scale of issuer, survival rates are low simply because so few were printed to begin with.