Catalog
50 Céntimos Torroella de Fluvià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Torroella de Fluvià |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2560 |
| Obverse description | Entirely typeset in red letterpress on plain cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer name and face value within a series of interlocking dotted rectangular frames that form a continuous S-curve border pattern. The text "CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TORROELLA DE FLUVIÀ" is set in bold capitals across the upper and central registers, with "VAL PER" in italic script and "CINQUANTA cèntims" in large display type at the base. The overall design is purely typographic with no vignette or pictorial element. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TORROELLA DE FLUVIÁ PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR CINQUANTA cèntims (Translation: Municipal Council of Torroella de Fluvià Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimes) |
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Torroella de Fluvià is a minor municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona province, and this 50 céntimos note is one of the thousands of fractional emergency issues that flooded Catalonia after the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936. The Republic's hoarding crisis stripped small coinage from circulation almost overnight, forcing even village-level bodies to print their own fiduciary scrip. Turró's catalog places this at #2560 — deep into a numbering system that itself reflects how many issuing authorities, large and small, scrambled to fill the void.