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50 Céntimos Tous
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Tous |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1480-A, TurróPV#1406 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black ink on plain paper, the face is enclosed within a simple geometric border. To the left, an oval vignette contains the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, beside which the denomination numeral '50' and issuer legends appear in bold sans-serif type. Structured text below confirms the payment obligation of the Municipal Treasury and records the emission date of 1 July 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Cts CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE TOUS La Tesorería Municipal pagará al portador CINCUENTA céntimos Emisión 1-7-1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Tous The Municipal Treasury will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos Issued July 1, 1937) |
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Tous is a small municipality in Valencia's Ribera Alta comarca, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1937. These consejos municipales notes were produced under no central oversight — design, printing quality, and quantities varied entirely by what resources the town had at hand. Tous had very little.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both document this emission, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce, as most provincial guerra civil paper from villages this size was printed in extremely limited runs and saw hard use before the Nationalist advance rendered it worthless.