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10 Céntimos Torrente de Cinca
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa de Torrente de Cinca |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1462-D |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Local de Defensa Torrente de Cinca - (Huesca) VALE 10 céntimos (Translation: Local Defense Council Torrente de Cinca (Huesca) It`s worth 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured paper, otherwise blank, bearing a large circular hand-stamp applied in red ink. The stamp reads "Consejo Local de Defensa" along the upper arc and "TORRENTE de CINCA (Huesca)" along the lower arc, with a five-pointed star at each side; the interior carries the monogram "C.N.T." flanked above and below by small decorative dumbbell ornaments. |
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Torrente de Cinca is a small municipality in Huesca, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish localities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the republic's small-change supply collapsed after 1936. These local council emissions — called *billetes de necesidad* — were authorized under republican decree but produced entirely at the local level, which accounts for the extraordinary variation in quality, material, and format across the series.
The square format here is a direct consequence of paper scarcity rather than any design decision.