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50 Pesetas Tivissa
| Issuer | Tivissa, Municipality of |
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| Value | 50 Pesetas (50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typewritten text in black ink on repurposed official Catalan government book paper, which bears pre-printed letterhead and ruled lines in black and red. A round red municipal stamp and a handwritten signature appear on this face, alongside a black-inked page number from the source register. The official book paper carries a pre-existing legend reading 'COMISSARIA GENERAL D'ORDRE PUBLIC DE CATALUNYA - SECCIO 9ª SUD-SECRETARIA', which varies according to the page of the book used. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this emergency note consists of the back of the same repurposed official Catalan government book page, retaining variable pre-printed letterhead text and ruled lines in black and red. A round red municipal stamp is also present on this face, and a black-inked page number from the source register is visible, consistent with the official book paper used throughout. |
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Tivissa is a small municipality in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republic's central coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local issues — known collectively as "paper moneda" or billetes locales — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often on whatever stock was available, with hand-stamped authorization or rubber-stamped signatures substituting for formal printing.
Turró catalogued over 2,500 such issues. Being number 2486, this Tivissa 50 Pesetas sits near the tail end of a vast, chaotic monetary improvisation that lasted only as long as the Republican zone held.