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25 Céntimos Torla
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de la Villa de Torla |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue note printed by letterpress with geometric and floral decorative borders framing the central text. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears at the top, flanked by the issuer's name and denomination. The typeset layout is characteristic of small emergency municipal issues from the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Reverse lettering | Serie A. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LA VILLA DE TORLA |
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Torla is a small mountain village in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of similarly tiny municipalities across Republican Spain, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War when coins disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Consejo Municipal — effectively the local revolutionary council — authorized these céntimos notes to keep basic commerce moving. Tip. Santamaría in Barbastro handled printing for several such local issues in the Huesca province.
Barbastro itself fell to Nationalist forces in early 1938, which puts a hard terminus on any notes from the region bearing Republican municipal authority.