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50 Céntimos Tornabous
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tornabous (Municipality of Tornabous) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2524 |
| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in violet and green on a light violet stippled underprint, with an ornamental rectangular border framing all inscriptions. The text is arranged in multiple registers across the face, stating the issuing authority, denomination in Catalan, mandatory circulation clause, and an expiry notice dated 31 July 1938. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE TORNABOUS VAL Cinquanta cèntims Circulació obligatoria dintre la població. Garantit per l`Ajuntament Tornabous, Agost del 1937. NOTA.- Aquest VAL caduca el 31 de Juliol del 1938. (Translation: City Council of Tornabous Voucher Fifty Centimos Mandatory circulation within the town. Guaranteed by the City Council Tornabous, August 1937. NOTE.- This Voucher expires on July 31, 1938.) |
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Tornabous is a small municipality in the comarca of l'Urgell, inland Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred in the 1930s. During the Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain prompted thousands of local councils — many far larger than Tornabous — to issue their own emergency paper fractional currency. The Catalans called these notes *moneda local* or *val*, and the Generalitat eventually attempted to regulate the chaos, with limited success.
The Imprenta Crònica Targarina, based in nearby Tàrrega, printed emergency currency for several l'Urgell municipalities during 1937, making it a regional hub for this peculiar wartime production. Turró catalogs this emission as #2524.