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1 Peseta Torrebesses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torrebesses |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL. - TORREBESSES Val d`UNA pesseta de circulació obligatória dintre la localitat, garantit per la Caixa Municipal (Translation: Municipal Council Torrebesses Voucher of One Peseta Mandatory circulation within the location. Guaranteed by the Municipal Treasury) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reserve bearing a single hand-applied circular municipal seal in violet ink, centrally positioned within a dotted rectangular border. The seal reads around its circumference and is decorated with small asterisk ornaments at the base and right side. |
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Torrebesses is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorized local bodies to fill the acute coin shortage caused by hoarding and metal requisitioning. The Consell Municipal — the revolutionary council that had replaced conventional local government — commissioned Imprenta Payà of Lleida, a printer that handled a notable volume of these emergency municipal issues across the province.
Turró catalogues this as #2536, placing it within a well-documented but still regionally obscure series. The population of Torrebesses at the time was under five hundred, which kept emission volumes low.