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50 Céntimos Farners de la Selva
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Farners de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 59 mm |
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| Reverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Farners de la Selva is centered within a large ornate cartouche rendered in gold and green, surrounded by a radiating guilloche sunburst pattern. Decorative foliate scrollwork occupies the four corners against a finely lined underprint background. The serial number appears twice in red at the lower portion, flanking the denomination inscription. |
| 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.