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50 Céntimos Tortosa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tortosa (Municipality of Tortosa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 95 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Lilac-brown letterpress note with the municipal rhomboid coat of arms of Tortosa at left, surrounded by decorative floral vignette work. The central field carries the full obligation text in Catalan across multiple lines. The overall layout is simple and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE TORTOSA El portador acredita d'aquest Ajuntament la quantitat de CINQUANTA CENTIMS Tortosa 9 de Novembre de 1937 (Translation: City Council of Tortosa The bearer accredits of this City Council the amount of Fifty Centimos Tortosa November 9, 1937) |
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Tortosa's municipal emergency issues of 1937 fall squarely within the chaotic proliferation of local paper money that swept Republican-held Spain during the Civil War. With the peseta system buckling under wartime strain and the central government unable to supply adequate coin or small-denomination notes, hundreds of Spanish municipalities printed their own fractional currency — legally under a 1936 decree that authorized but never effectively regulated the practice. Tortosa, a strategically significant city on the Ebro in southern Catalonia, was among them.
Algueró-Baiges was a local commercial printer, not a security press. The Turró reference number places this within the exhaustively documented Catalan municipal series, Tortosa fell to Nationalist forces in April 1938 following the brutal Battle of the Ebro, which would have ended the redemption window for any surviving notes almost immediately.