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2 Pesetas Torrente de Cinca
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa de Torrente de Cinca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Sol, Lleida, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE 2'00 PTAS. CONSEJO LOCAL DE DEFENSA. - Torrente de Cinca Cinco vales canjeables a su presentación por diez pesetas plata o papel de curso legal. Torrente de Cinca, Mayo de 1937. EL PRESIDENTE, (Translation: Value 2.00 Pesetas. Local Defense Council - Torrente de Cinca. Five vouchers exchangeable upon presentation for ten silver pesetas or legal tender paper. Torrente de Cinca, May 1937. The President,) |
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| Reverse lettering | Certificado de plata de curso obligatorio en Torrente de Cinca (Huesca) Vale 2'00 pesetas (Translation: Silver certificate for mandatory circulation in Torrente de Cinca (Huesca). Worth 2.00 pesetas.) |
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Torrente de Cinca is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon, and this note is among hundreds of emergency local issues produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the Republic's decree of August 1937 authorized town councils to issue fractional currency to address a severe shortage of small change. The Consejo Local de Defensa designation places it firmly in the wartime administrative structure, where civilian councils took on quasi-military governance roles under Republican authority.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled printing for a number of these Aragonese municipal issues, which accounts for the typographic rather than engraved character common to the series. Gari Mon 1462-B suggests at least a variant exists within the Torrente de Cinca emission.