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5 Céntimos Torrente de Cinca
| Issuer | Torrente de Cinca, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Torrente de Cinca - (Huesca) VALE 5 céntimos (Translation: Torrente de Cinca (Huesca) It`s worth 5 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise blank white reverse bearing a single large oval municipal stamp applied in violet ink, encircling a central heraldic vignette and reading ALCALDIA CONSEJE DE... TORRENTE along the perimeter; a handwritten notation appears in the upper right corner outside the stamp. |
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Torrente de Cinca is a small municipality in the Aragonese province of Huesca, and this 5 céntimos note belongs to the emergency local paper money — known as moneda local or billetes de necesidad — issued across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War after the hoarding and melting of coins created acute small-change shortages from 1936 onward. Hundreds of municipalities printed their own fractional notes, many with no more authority than a rubber stamp and a council resolution.
The official stamp is the only security feature, which was entirely typical of these issues and did almost nothing to prevent counterfeiting — not that the hyperlocal circulation made forgery much of a commercial proposition.