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25 Céntimos Flaçà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Flaçà (Municipality of Flaçà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de FLAÇÀ AQUEST AJUNTAMENT RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS Flaçà, 27 de setembre del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Flaçà This City Council recognizes in favour of the bearer the amount of Twenty five Centimos Flaçà, September 27, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 cts. Bitllet de curs obligatori a Flaçà. Aquest paper moneda solament serà reemborsable a la Caixa Municipal a la seva presentació. (Translation: 25 Centimos Mandatory course banknote in Flaçà This paper money will only be refundable to the Caixa Municipal upon presentation.) |
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Flaçà is a small Catalan municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government authorized local authorities to produce low-denomination emergency notes to address an acute shortage of coin. The Generalitat de Catalunya's decree permitting this created an enormous proliferation of locally printed paper — over a thousand distinct municipal emissions are catalogued from Catalonia alone.
Turró #1016 places this emission within a well-documented series, but Flaçà's output was small-town modest. Survival rates for these municipal notes vary sharply by commune; smaller populations meant smaller print runs and fewer notes escaping the disorder of 1938–39.