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2 Pesetas Torla
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de la Villa de Torla |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LA VILLA DE TORLA serio D. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Torla is a small village in the Aragonese Pyrenees with a population that barely reached several hundred even in the 1930s. That a municipal council this small issued its own emergency paper currency during the Spanish Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held territory in 1936–37 forced hundreds of ayuntamientos and local councils to improvise their own scrip simply to keep commerce moving.
The sole security feature is an official stamp, which in practice meant a rubber or metal die impression applied by whoever was manning the council office. Authentication was entirely local and entirely trust-based.