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50 Céntimos Tomelloso
| Issuer | Tomelloso, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text and rectangular perimeter frame on a light brown underprint, with a central vignette of a soldier holding a rifle in one hand and a sickle in the other. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper left, with the full authorizing text of the Municipal Council of Tomelloso arranged in multiple lines across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 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) |
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Tomelloso is a town in Ciudad Real province, deep in the La Mancha wine country, and its municipal emergency currency was a direct product of the Republican government's 1936–37 authorization allowing local councils to issue small-denomination paper to address the acute shortage of metallic coinage in the early Civil War period. Copper and silver had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936, hoarded or melted, leaving ordinary commerce effectively paralyzed at the low-value end.
The Gari Mon catalogue documents over a thousand such Spanish local issues from this period, and Tomelloso's entries are among the more obscure — surviving examples turn up infrequently, consistent with the limited print runs typical of municipal issues serving small populations.