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5 Centimos Foixà; Fleca Torrent
| Issuer | Fleca Torrent (Foixà) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed voucher in black ink on white paper, with a single linear border framing the face. The issuer name and municipality are inscribed in bold capitals, above the denomination and a serial number printed in the same typeface. |
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| Obverse lettering | FLECA TORRENT FOIXA Nº 000512 VAL 5 Cts. (Translation: Bakery Torrent It's worth 5 Centimos) |
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Fleca Torrent was a bakery — "fleca" is Catalan for bakery — operating in Foixà, a village in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona with a population that barely reached three figures. During the early months of the Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination Republican coinage created acute shortages at the retail level, and businesses like this one issued their own paper scrip simply to make change. These notes, collectively called "moneda local" or "paper moneda," had no legal backing beyond the goodwill of the issuer and the necessity of the moment.
A bakery issuing its own currency is not unusual for 1936 Catalonia — hundreds of similar enterprises did the same — but Foixà's extreme smallness makes the Fleca Torrent emission one of the more local of all local issues.