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50 Céntimos Tivenys
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Tivenys |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2477 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TIVENYS Certificat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS de curs legal en aquesta localitat per a facilitar el canvi segons acord de la corporació del 15 de juliol del 1937 50 CÉNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Tivenys Certificate of Fifty Centimes of legal tender in this locality to facilitate change according to the agreement of the corporation of July 15, 1937 50 Centimes) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TIVENYS 50 CÉNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Tivenys 50 Centimes) |
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Tivenys is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency when coin shortages became acute after 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced even villages of a few hundred inhabitants to improvise their own fiduciary instruments — a phenomenon documented across thousands of municipalities, which is precisely why Turró's catalog runs to such extraordinary length.
The single official stamp constitutes the primary authentication device, which was typical of the smallest issuers working without access to specialist printers.