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50 Céntimos Torla
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de la Villa de Torla |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de la Villa de TORLA CINCUENTA CÉNTIMOS 50 céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of the Village of Torla Fifty Centimos 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain off-white paper reverse bearing an oval violet handstamp reading CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE LA VILLA DE TORLA, enclosing the municipal coat of arms at centre. A manuscript signature appears to the right of the stamp, with a handwritten series designation inscribed in the lower left area. |
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Torla is a small mountain village in the Pyrenees of Huesca province, and its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency — *papel moneda local* — during the Spanish Civil War when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation across Republican-held territory. These hyper-local emissions from village councils were a direct response to the Nationalist blockade of coin supplies and the general monetary chaos of 1936–1939.
The Gari Monetary catalogue documents hundreds of such municipal issues from Aragon alone. Torla's examples are among the rarer village-level pieces given the settlement's tiny population, and survivorship is low — most were redeemed, lost, or simply worn to nothing in a community where they would have changed hands constantly for basic goods.