Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Céntimos Les Franqueses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Les Franqueses del Vallès |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 100 × 64 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 0`25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LES FRANQUESES VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL PER ACORD DEL DIA 5 DE JUNY DEL 1937 De curs obligatori en tot el terme municipal de Les Franqueses (Translation: Municipal Council of Les Franqueses Twenty five Centimos Refundable to the Caixa Municipal by agreement of June 5, 1937 Of mandatory course in all the municipal term of Les Franqueses) |
| Reverse description | Two circular vignettes occupy the face: the left circle contains a view of the Town Hall building, while the right circle presents a rural scene of a farmer ploughing the land with a pair of oxen. The denomination and issuing authority are rendered in letterpress text. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Les Franqueses del Vallès was one of dozens of small Catalan municipalities that issued their own fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republic's silver and copper coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime demand. The Consell Municipal, under anarchist and left-republican influence like much of the Generalitat's local administration at the time, had little choice but to print its own.
C.A.M. in Barcelona produced municipal emergency issues for numerous towns simultaneously, which means the printing quality is competent but the design work is modest. Turró catalogues over a thousand such local issues; this one sits toward the middle of that sequence.