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25 Céntimos Forès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Forès (Municipality of Forès) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE FORÈS La Dipositaria Municipal pagarà al portador 25 CÈNTIMS Setembre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Forès The Municipal Depository will pay the bearer 25 Centimos September 1937) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text on a yellow geometric underprint within a blue dotted rectangular border, matching the obverse in style. The issuing authority's name is printed at the top, with the denomination in figures and words at lower left, a serial number at centre, and the series designation at lower right. Small decorative typographic ornaments appear in the corners of the inner frame. |
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Forès is a municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca with a population that barely reached 200 during the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 reflects how thoroughly the Republican zone fragmented its currency supply during the Civil War — the Generalitat de Catalunya authorized thousands of local ajuntaments to print their own xiquets, and Imprenta Solé in Tarragona obliged dozens of them.
The Turró catalogue documents this as a single-denomination emission. At 25 céntimos, it would have covered the smallest daily transactions in a rural economy running almost entirely on local scrip by mid-war.