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1 Peseta Fornells de la Selva
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Fornells de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1047 |
| Obverse description | Printed in pink on a light green geometric underprint, the note is set within an ornamental letterpress frame with decorative border elements. The face value '1 PESSETA' and the issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE FORNELLS DE LA SELVA' appear within the central field. The overall layout is characteristic of Catalan Civil War-era emergency municipal issues produced by letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE FORNELLS DE LA SELVA 1 PESSETA (Translation: Municipal Council of Fornells de la Selva - 1 Peseta) |
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Fornells de la Selva is a small municipality in the comarca of Gironès, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not replaced by the Republic. The Consell Municipal had no banking infrastructure behind these notes; they were obligations redeemable locally and largely useless outside the town.
Gràfiques Darío Rahola operated out of Girona and handled print runs for several small municipalities in the province, which gives surviving examples from different issuers an occasionally similar typographic character. Turró catalogues this as #1047.