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50 Céntimos Torvizcón

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Torvizcón
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse lettering Consejo Municipal TORVIZCÓN 50 céntimos Vale provisional
(Translation: Municipal Council Torvizcón 50 Centimos Provisional voucher)
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Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE TORVIZCÓN
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Torvizcón is a small village in the Alpujarra region of Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorized local councils to produce small-denomination notes to address the chronic shortage of coin. The Consejo Municipal series from these Alpujarran villages is poorly documented — survival rates are low, print runs were small, and many issues circulated only within the village itself before being rendered worthless.

The Gari Mon reference places this among the rarer provincial listings. Authentication hinges almost entirely on the official stamp, which varies in ink color and placement even within the same emission.

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