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50 Céntimos Tomelloso
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Tomelloso |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Uniface red letterpress note on cream paper. To the left, a classical allegorical female figure stands beside a shield and holds a bunch of grapes, representing viticulture. At upper right, the denomination '50 CENTIMOS' is set within a five-pointed star vignette, while the central text panel, framed by ornamental borders, carries the issuing authority's declaration and three manuscript signatures with their role designations below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Caduca el 31 de diciembre de 1937 50 Cts (Translation: Expires on December 31, 1937 50 Centimos) |
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Tomelloso, a large wine-producing town in Ciudad Real province, was firmly Republican during the Civil War and issued its own emergency fractional currency — vales locales — when the coin shortage became acute in 1937. The Nationalist blockade of silver and copper coinage was strangling everyday commerce across the Republican zone, and hundreds of municipalities resorted to cardboard and paper to bridge the gap. Tomelloso's council was among them.
The Gari Montlló reference places this in a well-documented but thinly surviving series. Many municipal emissions from La Mancha were printed in very small runs and saw intense local use before the Republican collapse in 1939.