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10 Céntimos Torrelameu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torrelameu (Municipality of Torrelameu) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torrelameu Val 10 cèntims El Dipositari (Translation: City Council of Torrelameu Voucher 10 Centimos The Treasurer) |
| Reverse description | Orange card stock with a large circular black letterpress stamp centred on the face. The stamp encloses the municipal coat of arms — a crenellated tower above a vertically striped lower field — surrounded by the legend "AJUNTAMENT DE TORRELAMEU" in capitals with cross ornaments at the lateral points. A black serial number is typeset above the circular stamp. |
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Torrelameu is a village in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities in 1937, the local ajuntament issued its own fractional emergency currency after the disruption to coin supply caused by hoarding and Republican requisitioning of metal. These village-level emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *moneda de guerra* classification — were produced locally, often on whatever card stock was available, and accepted only within the issuing municipality's immediate area.
Turró 2550 places this among the less documented rural Lleida emissions. Surviving examples are scarce simply because production runs for villages this size were small and the notes had a short practical life.