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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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| Size | 115 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE TORRELLES DE FOIX Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CTS. TORRELLES DE FOIX, JUNY 1937 50 CENTIMS (Translation: The City Council of Torrelles de Foix recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos. Torrelles de Foix, June 1937. 50 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CTS. DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: 50 Centimos of mandatory local currency) |
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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.