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25 Céntimos La Floresta
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Floresta |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1026 |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on cream-coloured card stock, the face carries the municipal authority text in plain typeset lettering, with four vertical bars to the right representing the Catalan flag (Senyera) as an emblem of regional identity. The layout is austere and functional, consistent with Civil War-era Catalan emergency currency produced without ornamental vignettes or guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA FLORESTA Val per 25 cts. Garantid per la Caixa Municipal (Translation: City Council of La Floresta Voucher for 25 Centimos Guaranteed by the Municipal Fund) |
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La Floresta is a small residential district in the municipality of Les Planes d'Hostoles, and like hundreds of Catalan towns and villages, its local authority resorted to issuing small-denomination emergency paper during the summer of 1936 when the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War caused a near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. These hyper-local emissions — collectively catalogued under the Spanish term moneda local de necessitat — were produced with whatever printing resources were immediately at hand, which accounts for the card stock construction and the modest dimensions.
Turró's catalogue documents only this single reference for La Floresta, suggesting the issue was limited in scope.