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50 Céntimos Tona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tona |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue ink, enclosed within a simple single-line rectangular border. The Catalan coat of arms appears as a vignette in the upper left corner, while the text body carries the full issuing authority legend, denomination, date, and mandatory circulation clause in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse, showing plain aged cream-coloured paper stock with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Tona is a small municipality in Osona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local vales were a practical stop-gap, not an official monetary instrument, and their legal standing was always ambiguous. The Generalitat tolerated rather than sanctioned them.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: thinner paper deteriorated quickly in daily retail use, and these notes were expected to circulate hard within the town's own commerce until proper coinage returned — which, for Tona, it never did under the Republic.