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50 Céntimos Farners de la Selva

Issuer Ajuntament de Farners de la Selva
Year 1937
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Value 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP)
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Obverse description Central vignette of Farners Castle set against a background evoking the local industrial and agricultural character of the municipality, with metallic motifs referencing local industry and fruit garlands at the upper and lower borders. The denomination and municipal authority inscription are arranged around the central design, with the date of the authorizing council session noted in the lower text panel.
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Reverse lettering 50 CTS. CINQUANTA CENTIMS
(Translation: 50 Centimos Fifty Centimes)
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Farners de la Selva — now known as Santa Coloma de Farners — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small change effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936. These local emissions, collectively catalogued under the bitllets locals system, were printed with whatever equipment the town had on hand. Here, that meant Arts Gràfiques, a local print shop — not a specialist security printer.

Turró 994 is a scarce entry. Santa Coloma de Farners was a small provincial town, and low print runs combined with wartime disruption mean surviving examples are genuinely uncommon.

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