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50 Céntimos Forcall
| Issuer | Centro Obrero Forcallense (Cooperativa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Entirely letterpress-printed in black on white paper. At left, the denomination '50 CÉNTIMOS' appears within a bold rectangular cartouche underscored by three vertical rules forming a pillar device. To the right, the issuer's name 'El Centro Obrero Forcallense (COOPERATIVA)' is set in bold capitals above the promise-to-pay legend 'Pagará al portador 50 CÉNTIMOS', the place and date 'FORCALL, 1 de octubre 1937' in italic, and a manuscript signature of the Depositario beneath the printed title 'EL DEPOSITARIO'. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank and unprinted, consistent with the rudimentary production standards typical of small-denomination emergency issues circulated by local workers' cooperatives and labour organisations in the Valencian Community during the Spanish Civil War. |
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Centro Obrero Forcallense was a workers' cooperative in Forcall, a small municipality in the Maestrat region of Castellón, that issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The acute coin shortage of 1936–37 prompted hundreds of Catalan, Valencian, and Aragonese municipalities, cooperatives, and trade union bodies to print their own local scrip — this note is one of those issues.
Forcall's population at the time was under a thousand. That a cooperative of that size produced catalogued fractional paper at all makes this a genuinely uncommon local issue.