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50 Céntimos Torredembarra
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torredembarra (Municipality of Torredembarra) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torredembarra Cinquanta Cts. Emès per aquest Consell per tal de facilitar el canvi, reemborsable a la seva caixa. Acord pres el 20 de Maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Torredembarra Fifty Centimos Issued by this Council in order to facilitate change, refundable at its Treasury. Agreement taken on May 20, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reddish-brown letterpress text and geometric border framing on a yellow ground composed of repeating shell motifs. The denomination and validity clause are set in bold type at centre, with the authorization legend below. The overall design mirrors the typographic style of the obverse, with no pictorial elements. |
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Torredembarra is a small coastal town in the Tarragonès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted down, or simply absent. The Ajuntament authorized these notes under the broad framework of local emisiones de guerra that flooded the Republican rear between 1936 and 1938.
Printed locally by Imprenta Sonsona, the production quality reflects what a small-town commercial printer could manage under wartime conditions. Turró catalogs this as #2541, placing it within a well-documented but sprawling series of Catalan municipal issues that researchers still find difficult to census reliably.