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50 Céntimos Tornabous
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tornabous (Municipality of Tornabous) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE TORNABOUS VAL DE CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS circulació obligatòria dintre la població, garantit per l'Ajuntament. Tornabous, març del 1937. L'Alcalde, El Secretari (Translation: City Council of Tornabous Voucher of Fifty Centimes Mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Tornabous, March 1937. The Mayor, The Secretary) |
| 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.