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1 Peseta Torrelles de Foix
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torrelles de Foix |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 115 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light lilac underprint with green letterpress text throughout. The municipal emblem of two towers occupies the upper centre, flanked by ears of wheat and an olive branch; to the right, a plate and vase serve as vignettes alluding to the local ceramic craft tradition. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Catalan within a decorative text block. |
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| Reverse description | Light lilac underprint with green letterpress text. A central vignette depicts a tree set before the Font dels Dous, a local fountain known for its more than twenty-four water jets. The mandatory local circulation notice is printed below the vignette. |
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Torrelles de Foix is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca — population in the hundreds — yet like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's coinage supply collapsed entirely. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipal issues in 1937 specifically to fill this gap, and El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled print runs for dozens of these small councils simultaneously, which accounts for the consistent if modest production quality across the series.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 distinct municipal issues from this period. That number is the real story: not rarity by design, but rarity by attrition.