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50 Céntimos Les Franqueses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Les Franqueses del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | To the left, a vignette of a prismatic stone column bearing the local municipal coat of arms on one of its faces — a monument historically situated before the Town Hall of Les Franqueses and later relocated in 1982 to the town of Corró d'Avall. The surrounding text, arranged in letterpress, carries the denomination and legal tender inscription in Catalan. The overall design is spare and typographic in character, consistent with the emergency issue printing conventions of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Reverse description | Two circular vignettes occupy the central field: the left vignette presents a view of the Town Hall building of Les Franqueses, while the right vignette shows a farmer ploughing the land with a pair of oxen, evoking the agricultural character of the municipality. The denomination and issuer name are rendered in letterpress around and between the medallions. |
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Les Franqueses del Vallès was one of dozens of Catalan municipalities forced into issuing emergency fractional currency during 1937 after Republican-zone coins essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never produced in sufficient quantity. The Consell Municipal handled its own typographic printing through C.A.M. in Barcelona, a press that churned out similar local scrip for multiple town councils simultaneously, which accounts for the visibly modest production quality common across this series.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such municipal emissions from the Civil War period. That this one survives at all is partly luck — many were redeemed and pulped, others lost when the Francoist advance disrupted local administration entirely.