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1 Peseta Forès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Forès (Municipality of Forès) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on cream card stock, with the issuer name 'Ajuntament de Forès' in bold serifed type at top, separated from the central field by a double rule interrupted by a small ornamental device. The denomination statement 'VAL PER' appears in large capitals above a wavy-line border panel enclosing '1'00 Pesseta' in bold display type; the entire composition is printed in black ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Forès VAL PER 1'00 Pesseta (Translation: City Council of Forès Valid for 1.00 Peseta) |
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Forès is a municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred. That it issued its own emergency currency at all places it among the hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipal authorities that resorted to locally printed paper during the 1936–39 Civil War, when the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and melting.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled a significant volume of these Guerra Civil municipals, which accounts for the relatively competent production quality despite the issuer's size. The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this class of notes.