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50 Céntimos Tous d'Anoia
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tous (Municipality of Tous d'Anoia) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text printed by letterpress in dark blue ink. A rectangular border of square ornamental motifs frames the face, with corner embellishments at each angle. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT de TOUS' is set in bold capital letters across the upper half, with the denomination 'Val per 50 cènts.' printed in large numerals and text below. A circular red municipal validation stamp is applied over the face. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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One of thousands of small-denomination emergency notes — vals, bitllets de necessitat — issued by Catalan municipalities in the summer and autumn of 1936 as the Civil War disrupted coin supply almost immediately after the July uprising. Tous d'Anoia is a small inland municipality in the Anoia comarca, and its issues were purely local instruments: accepted at face value within the village and functionally worthless outside it.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for these Catalan local emissions, and Tous appears with very few entries — this 50 céntimos being among the rarest of a scarce series. Most surviving examples show heavy use, which itself reflects genuine circulation rather than hoarding.