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50 Céntimos Tomelloso
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Tomelloso |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTIMOS EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE TOMELLOSO RECONOCE A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE CINCUENTA CENTIMOS. en virtud de acuerdo tomado en la sesión del día 9 de julio de 1937. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Tomelloso recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos. by virtue of the agreement taken in the session of July 9, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Red letterpress design on cream paper, with the local municipal coat of arms at centre, flanked by agricultural vignettes on both sides, and denomination and expiry text arranged around the composition. |
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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.