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50 Céntimos Torà de Riubregós
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torà de Riubregós |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow-green note with black letterpress text. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal de Torà' appears at top, with the denomination '50 CENTIMS' in large numerals at centre, accompanied by a large oval official municipal stamp in violet ink. Series letter and serial number are printed in black below the central vignette area. |
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| Reverse description | Plain note in similar yellow-green stock with green letterpress printing. The issuer name arcs across the upper portion, the large face value numeral occupies the centre, and a redemption clause is printed along the lower margin, all within a simple unadorned layout typical of Civil War-era Catalan municipal emergency issues. |
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Torà de Riubregós is a small municipality in the comarca of Segarra, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of similarly tiny Catalan and Aragonese councils during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican Spain's small change effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Republican government had lost control of the coin supply, and local councils filled the gap with whatever they could print or stamp locally.
The official stamp is the only security measure — which tells you everything about the trust network these notes depended on: purely local, purely face-to-face.