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1 Peseta Les Franqueses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Les Franqueses del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, a prismatic stone column bearing the local coat of arms on one of its carved faces — a monument historically situated in front of the Town Hall of Les Franqueses and later relocated to Corró d'Avall in 1982. The denomination and issuing authority appear in Catalan within the surrounding text field. The overall layout is typographically composed with letterpress printing. |
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| Reverse description | Two circular vignettes dominate the design: at left, a view of the Town Hall building, and at right, a rural scene of a farmer ploughing the land with a pair of oxen. The denomination and issuing authority are inscribed in Catalan within the surrounding legend. |
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Les Franqueses del Vallès was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime disruption. The Consell Municipal stepped in as a matter of practical necessity, not monetary ambition.
C.A.M. in Barcelona handled a substantial volume of these municipal issues, which accounts for the family resemblance across many Turró-catalogued notes from the period. Turró 1051 is not common; municipal issues from smaller Vallès towns were printed in limited runs and circulated hard within tight local boundaries before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.