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25 Céntimos Torre Libre
| Issuer | Colectividad Campesina de Torre Libre |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Diameter | 45 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD CAMPESINA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 25 CÉNTIMOS TORRE LIBRE (Teruel) (Translation: Peasant Collectivity Will pay to the bearer 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain white cardboard reverse showing a faint mirror-image bleed-through impression of the obverse typeset printing in pale blue, a characteristic artifact of the thin cardboard printing medium. No intentional design, legend, or device is present; the reverse is otherwise unprinted and unadorned. |
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Torre Libre was a small anarchist collective in Aragón operating under the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo during the Spanish Civil War. Like dozens of similar villages in the region, it issued its own emergency scrip when the Republican monetary system broke down and metal coinage disappeared from circulation entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. Cardboard tokens at this diameter were punched or cut locally, often by hand, with production quality varying dramatically between pieces.
The Gari catalog distinguishes two sub-varieties under 1446A-B, likely reflecting different print runs or cardstock.