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1 Peseta Flaçà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Flaçà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a simple rectangular border. The text of the promise to pay is set in block capitals across the face, with the issuing authority, denomination in words, place name, and date of issue arranged in successive lines. A pink horizontal ruled band runs along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE FLAÇA VAL UNA PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Flaçà Voucher for One Peseta) |
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Flaçà is a small railway junction municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency small-change notes in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functional coin supply forced even villages of a few hundred inhabitants into local monetary improvisation.
The printer, Imprenta C. Barnés of Palamós, handled a number of these Girona-province municipal issues during the same period — a regional shop doing urgent work for urgent circumstances. Flaçà's series is among the less commonly encountered of the Turró-catalogued Baix Empordà emissions.