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50 Céntimos Torres del Obispo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torres del Obispo |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 45 × 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on light blue card stock, the face carries a handwritten serial number field preceded by the abbreviation 'Núm.' at upper centre. The issuing authority and denomination are set in bold sans-serif type across three lines, centred within the note. The entire design is enclosed by a dotted rectangular border running close to the edges. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed on the same light blue card stock, bears a stamped date '23 JUN. 1937' at centre-left in black ink. Two partial circular official validation stamps are visible in the upper-right and lower-right corners, one reading 'CONSEJO', confirming municipal authentication of the voucher. |
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Torres del Obispo is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon — during the Civil War, Republican municipal councils across the region issued their own emergency fractional currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. These local emisiones were authorized under broad Republican wartime decrees but were produced with whatever materials and printing capability a small municipality could muster, which is why the card stock here is heavier than anything a banking printer would sanction.
At roughly the size of a large postage stamp, this is among the smallest municipal issues documented for Huesca province.