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5 Centimos Fornells de la Selva
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Fornells de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Technique | Typeset |
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| Obverse description | Circular white cardboard token with a bold rectangular border framing the entire face. The legend is arranged in three lines across the field in black typeset lettering, reading CONSELL MUNICIPAL / VAL 5 CTS. / FORNELLS DE LA SELVA, denoting the issuing Municipal Council and the face value of 5 centimos. The design is austere and functional, consistent with wartime emergency issue practice. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Fornells de la Selva is a small Catalan municipality near Girona that, like hundreds of other Republican-held towns during the Spanish Civil War, faced an acute shortage of metallic currency after 1936. The central government's inability to supply sufficient coinage forced local councils — consells municipals — to issue their own emergency paper and cardboard fractional currency, known as moneda local or guerra civil local issues. These circulated purely within municipal boundaries, often redeemable only at the issuing body.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for these Catalan war issues, with Gari providing supplementary regional coverage of the Girona province specifically.