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50 Céntimos Torreblanca
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torreblanca (Federación de Abastos) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1449-A |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue ink on green card stock, the obverse is enclosed within a plain double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority appears in two lines at the top — 'Consejo Municipal.--Torreblanca' and '(Federación de Abastos)' — separated from the lower text by a thin horizontal rule. A handwritten serial number field ('Num.') with a dotted line occupies the centre, above the bearer clause 'Pagará al portador' and the large denomination figure '0·50 cts.' printed at the base. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain green card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Torreblanca is a small coastal municipality in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small-denomination scrip when coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. The Federación de Abastos designation ties this note specifically to the local supply and rationing apparatus — it was not general-purpose currency but instrument of a controlled distribution network.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice across many Valencian municipal issues, intended to extend the working life of notes that would pass through market stalls and provision counters daily. Few survived in quantity.