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50 Céntimos Torredonjimeno
| Issuer | Torredonjimeno, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL Torredonjimeno 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Torredonjimeno 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | DEPOSITARIA TORREDONJIMENO |
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Torredonjimeno is a small olive-producing municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the enormous wave of emergency local currency issued across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War (1936–39). The national coinage vanished almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising — hoarded, melted, or simply lost as supply chains collapsed — and hundreds of municipalities responded by printing their own fractional notes on whatever materials were available.
Thick card stock was a common choice at this scale: easier to cut, harder to tear, and marginally more resistant to the rapid wear that plagued thinner paper issues from comparable towns.