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50 Céntimos Torrelles de Foix
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torrelles de Foix |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Light green note with dark green letterpress text and vignette. The central emblem displays two towers — the local heraldic device — flanked by ears of wheat and an olive branch, with a plate and vase to the right alluding to the ceramic craft tradition of the municipality. The face value and issuing authority inscriptions are arranged around the central device in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | Light green note with dark green letterpress text and a central vignette of a tree set before the Font dels Dous, a local fountain known for its more than twenty-four water jets. The mandatory circulation notice is printed in dark green text below the vignette. |
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Torrelles de Foix is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized local councils to print such notes, which is why so many carry similar denominations and share the same Barcelona printers — El Secretariat Català handled a considerable volume of this municipal work.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 of these local issues. That number alone suggests how thin individual print runs often were, and Torrelles de Foix was a village, not a market town.