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10 Céntimos Falset
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Falset |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in dark navy blue letterpress, entirely typographic in design. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal' appears at the top, separated from the municipality name 'FALSET' below by a horizontal rule. The word 'VAL' with an underline is centred in the middle field, and the denomination '10 cèntims' is set in a larger bold typeface across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL FALSET |
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Falset is a small town in the Priorat region of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's chronic shortage of small change left local commerce effectively frozen. These municipal notes — collectible under the broad "guerra civil" category — were produced under improvised conditions, often by local printers with no experience in security printing and minimal materials.
The nearly square format is a direct consequence of paper economy, not design choice. Turró catalogued over a thousand such emissions; Falset's issues are among the more obscure ones.