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50 Céntimos Forcall
| Issuer | Forcall, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#663-A |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Céntimos El Centro Obrero Forcallense (COOPERATIVA) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 50 CÉNTIMOS FORCALL, 20 Mayo 1937. (Translation: 50 Centimos The Forcallense Workers Center (Cooperative) Will pay the bearer 50 Centimos Forcall, May 20, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse, left unprinted, as was customary for many locally issued Spanish Civil War emergency notes produced under wartime conditions with minimal resources. |
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Forcall is a small municipality in the Maestrazgo region of Castellón, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local issues — generically called billetes locales or moneda municipal — were authorised under a framework of Republican decrees that essentially deputised town councils as emergency monetary authorities. The practical result was thousands of hyper-local issues, most printed in tiny quantities, many on whatever paper stock was at hand.
Gari's catalogue remains the primary reference for these Valencian municipal emissions, and the 663-A designation places this among documented Forcall output — but surviving examples are genuinely uncommon simply because the issuing population was so small.