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50 Céntimos Torralba de Calatrava
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torralba de Calatrava |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left centre, flanked to the right by the bearer voucher inscription and the large-numeral denomination '50 céntimos'. The issuer title appears at the top in two lines separated by double rules, with a validity clause in smaller type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de Torralba de Calatrava VALE AL PORTADOR POR 50 céntimos Valedero sólo para dentro de la población (Translation: Municipal Council of Torralba de Calatrava Voucher to the bearer for 50 Centimos Valid only within the town) |
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Torralba de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, its local council issued emergency small-change notes during the Civil War when metallic coinage effectively disappeared from everyday commerce between 1936 and 1939. These municipal issues were purely local solutions to a national problem — accepted within the town, worthless anywhere else.
The Gari Mon catalogue (Billetes Locales de España) remains the primary reference for these provincial emissions, and the -B suffix here indicates a distinct variety within the type. Thick card stock was a common substitution when proper banknote paper was unavailable.