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50 Céntimos Torre de Fontaubella
| Issuer | Alcaldia Constitucional de Torre de Fontaubella |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Val cinquanta centims ALCALDIA CONSTITUCIONAL DE TORRE DE FONTAUBELLA (Translation: It`s worth Fifty Centimos Constitutional Mayoralty of Torre de Fontaubella) |
| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned cream paper stock with visible creasing consistent with circulation use. |
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Torre de Fontaubella is a tiny municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War — a direct consequence of the Republican government's failure to supply sufficient coinage to local economies after 1936. The Turró catalogue documents thousands of these municipal emissions; this 50 céntimos piece from the Alcaldía Constitucional is among the more obscure, issued by a community whose population at the time numbered only in the hundreds.
Survival rates for these hyper-local wartime issues are unpredictable. Some were printed in such small quantities that almost nothing remains; others surfaced in bulk from a single hoard decades later.