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5 Céntimos Falset
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Falset |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in dark blue letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal' appears at the top, underlined, followed by 'FALSET' in bold capitals at centre. The word 'VAL', also underlined, is set in the middle register, with the denomination '5 cèntims' in large bold type occupying the lower portion of the face. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock, otherwise blank, validated by a triangular municipal dry-ink stamp applied in grey-black ink. The stamp bears the legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' along its right side and 'FALSET' along the base, enclosing a triangle within the outer triangular border. |
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Falset is a small comarca capital in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These tiny municipal notes — more cardboard chit than banknote — circulated purely on local trust and municipal authority, accepted in the market and shops of the immediate town and essentially nowhere else.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for this material. At roughly the size of a large postage stamp, losses and damage rates were high, and small-denomination pieces like this 5 céntimos are disproportionately scarce relative to higher values from the same issue.