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50 Céntimos Toló
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Toló |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress printing on plain paper with a central six-pointed star vignette enclosed within a decorative floral ornamental border. The issuing authority and denomination are inscribed around the central motif in bold capital lettering. The overall layout is characteristic of wartime Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | Segell Municipal 50 CENTIMS Vila de Toló 1937 (Translation: Municipal stamp 50 Centimos Village of Toló 1937) |
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Toló is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Pallars Jussà, Catalonia — population then as now measured in the hundreds. Like hundreds of other Catalan and Aragonese localities during the Spanish Civil War, the town's municipal council issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin, which had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped circulating as the Republican zone's supply chains collapsed.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 such local issues. That Toló's note survives at all is largely a matter of accident — small-run municipal issues from villages of this size were rarely preserved systematically.