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50 Céntimos Torralba de Aragón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torralba de Aragón |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse in black letterpress on buff-toned paper, carrying the full authorisation text in justified paragraphs, overprinted with a circular violet Consejo Municipal ink stamp. The President's manuscript signature, reading Lázaro Escartín, appears below the printed legend El Presidente. |
| Reverse lettering | Autorizada la presente emisión de vales del número uno al mil; en sesión ordinaria de este Consejo del dia 3 de Julio de 1937. El Presidente. Lázaro Escartín (Translation: Authorized the present issuance of vouchers from number one to one thousand; in ordinary session of this Council on July 3, 1937. The President. Lázaro Escartín) |
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Torralba de Aragón is a village in Huesca province with a population that barely reached 500 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of similarly small Aragonese municipalities, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent as the war economy destabilized normal monetary channels. The Consell Municipal had no printer on hand; most notes of this type were produced locally, often by the town's own administrative office on whatever card stock was available.
Gari Montllor's catalog documents over a thousand such municipal emissions from Aragon alone.