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50 Céntimos Torrenueva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torrenueva |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pale green card stock, the obverse carries the issuing authority name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' at the top, separated from the bold locality name 'TORRENUEVA' by a ruled horizontal line. Below a second rule, the face value declaration 'Vale por 1 peseta' appears in bold type, followed by a handwritten serial number prefixed 'No', with the date 'Octubre 1937.' in italic script at the lower left. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL TORRENUEVA Vale por 1 peseta No [serial number] Octubre 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council / Torrenueva / Valid for 1 peseta / No. [serial number] / October 1937.) |
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Torrenueva is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small change in circulation — coins were hoarded, melted down, or simply disappeared — forcing hundreds of individual municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency. These local emissions, known collectively as guerra civil local issues, were authorised under Republican decree but executed with whatever printing resources the ayuntamiento or consejo municipal could access locally.
The thick card stock is characteristic of issues from smaller Manchegan towns, where commercial printers capable of handling proper banknote paper were unavailable. Catalogued under Gari Montaner, the reference standard for these municipal emissions, as #1463-C — the suffix indicating a variant within the Torrenueva series.