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2 Pesetas Torres del Obispo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torres del Obispo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 45 × 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on red card stock in black letterpress throughout, the face bears a dotted border running the full perimeter of the note. A handwritten serial number appears at the top above the issuing authority legend, with the denomination legend in bold type at the foot. A row of dots separates the issuer name from the value statement. |
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| Obverse lettering | Num. Consejo Municipal Torres del Obispo Vale por 2 pesetas (Translation: No. / Municipal Council / Torres del Obispo / Voucher for 2 Pesetas) |
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Torres del Obispo is a village of a few hundred souls in the Ribagorza district of Huesca province, Aragon — and like hundreds of other tiny Spanish municipalities, it was forced to print its own emergency currency in 1937 when the Republic's coin supply collapsed under wartime disruption. These hyper-local emissions, collectively cataloged under the broader "billetes de necesidad" phenomenon, were never legal tender outside the issuing community and were typically redeemed — or simply abandoned — within months.
The sheer obscurity of the issuer makes survival rates unpredictable. Provincial town council issues from this region were printed in tiny quantities, often on whatever card stock was available locally, and many were never formally withdrawn — they simply stopped circulating when the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless in late 1938.