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50 Céntimos Torà de Riubregós
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torà de Riubregós |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Cream and violet card stock with a horizontal-stripe underprint in mauve and rose tones, overlaid with a geometric guilloche-style pattern of stylised diamond and wave motifs. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Torà de Riubregós' is set in dark teal letterpress at the top, followed by the bearer clause and the denomination 'Cinquanta céntims' in bold display type. The date of issue appears in a lower cartouche framed by the horizontal banding. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torà de Riubregós PAGARA AL PORTADOR Cinquanta céntims. Torà, 31 Desembre del 1936. (Translation: City Council of Torà de Riubregós Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos Torà, December 31, 1936) |
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Torà de Riubregós is a small municipality in the Segarra comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in the summer and autumn of 1936 after the outbreak of the Civil War drained metallic coinage from circulation almost overnight. The Republican government's inability to supply sufficient small change pushed this task down to the municipal level, producing thousands of distinct local issues across Catalonia alone.
Turró #2503 documents this emission, though surviving examples are scarce given the note's purely local utility and the disruption that followed Franco's consolidation of the region by early 1939.