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50 Céntimos Torregrossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torregrossa (Municipality of Torregrossa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE TORREGROSSA Aquest Ajuntament abonarà al portador CINQUANTA CENTIMS Juny del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Torregrossa This City Council will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos June 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground printed in brown, divided into two panels by a vertical axis. The left panel contains a dotted guilloche-style geometric border enclosing the issuer name and denomination in bold letterpress type. The right panel carries the series letter designation, a printed serial number, and the territorial validity clause at the upper right. |
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Torregrossa is a small agricultural municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during 1936–1938, its local government issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed almost immediately after the Civil War began. Metal was requisitioned for the war effort; small change simply ceased to exist in everyday commerce. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses filled the vacuum with paper.
These hyper-local emissions were technically illegal under Republican treasury regulations but were tolerated out of necessity. Most were redeemed or confiscated after Franco's forces consolidated control of the region in early 1938, which accounts for the low survival rate of Lleida provincial issues generally.