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50 Céntimos Folgueroles

Issuer Consell Municipal de Folgueroles
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Reference(s) Turró#1031
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Obverse lettering CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE FOLGUEROLES VAL PER 50 CENTIMS
(Translation: Municipal Council of Folgueroles Voucher for 50 Centimos)
Reverse description The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain grey-beige card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind.
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Folgueroles is a small municipality in Osona, Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly modest towns it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipal councils to issue their own small-denomination notes (vales) to keep local commerce functioning, which is why pieces like this exist at all — not from any banking infrastructure, but from sheer necessity.

Turró catalogues this issue under #1031, placing it within the broader Catalan municipal emission series. At the dimensions listed, this is about as small as Civil War-era Spanish local paper gets.

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