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25 Céntimos Torrebesses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torrebesses |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on light blue-grey card stock, the obverse carries the issuing authority name CONSELL MUNICIPAL TORREBESSES at the top, flanked by decorative arrow motifs and a wavy underline. The denomination Val VINT-I-CINC cèntims is set in large bold type at centre, with the obligation and guarantee clause in smaller text below. A handwritten serial number appears vertically along the left margin. |
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| Protection description | Round violet municipal stamp applied to the reverse as authentication |
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Torrebesses is a village in the Segrià comarca of Lleida with a population that barely exceeded 400 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, the local council issued its own fractional emergency currency after the collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation in 1936 — the Republican government's inability to supply adequate change drove even the smallest towns to print their own.
The official stamp was the primary fraud deterrent, applied by hand after printing. On notes from villages this small, ink coverage and stamp impression vary considerably between surviving examples.