2 Pesetas Torrente de Cinca

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.