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50 Céntimos Valdeltormo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Valdeltormo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed certificate in violet ink, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned in the upper left corner, with the denomination and issuing authority text arranged in structured blocks across the face of the note. |
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| Protection description | Oval municipal ink stamp applied to the reverse as a validation mark, as stipulated by the obverse legend; note declared invalid without this stamp. |
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Valdeltormo is a village in the Matarraña comarca of Aragon, with a population that barely reached 600 during the 1930s. Like dozens of Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional emergency scrip in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible — copper and silver had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation.
The stamp served as the primary authentication against forgery, a low-tech but locally effective measure. Notes of this type were only valid within the issuing municipality, which limited counterfeiting incentive considerably.