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50 Céntimos Tornabous
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tornabous (Municipality of Tornabous) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 107 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red and blue on plain paper, enclosed within a single red rectangular border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in blue at all four corners, each flanked by decorative red curved ornaments, while the issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT DE TORNABOUS' is set in bold blue type across the upper field with a double underline. The value line 'VAL DE CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS' is printed in mixed blue and red lettering, followed by the circulation guarantee clause in smaller blue type, the issue date, and two manuscript signatures below the titles 'L'Alcalde' and 'El Secretari', with a red circular official stamp visible at left and a serial number in the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream paper with a faint show-through of the obverse design visible by transmitted light. A faint rectangular border impression from the obverse printing is discernible. |
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Tornabous is a small municipality in the comarca of l'Urgell, Lleida province. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone faced a catastrophic shortage of fractional coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including ones with populations barely in the hundreds, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya to issue their own emergency paper money. Tornabous was among the smallest communities to do so.
Turró catalogues these municipal emissions systematically; #2520 places this note among the rarer village-level issues where surviving quantities are genuinely low, simply because the original print runs were tiny and redemption after the war eliminated most of them.