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0.05 Pesetas Lloà
| Issuer | Comité d'Abastos de Lloà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper, the obverse is laid out in a simple letterpress style within a single-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority 'Comité d'Abastos - LLOÀ' is set in bold type at the top, above a large central denomination numeral '0'05' flanked by the legend 'VAL PER' and 'PESSETES'. A handstamped oval cachet of 'Cooperativa Obrera La Redentora' appears in the upper portion, and three manuscript signature lines for El President, L'Interventor, and El Dipositari are ruled at the foot of the note, with the printer's imprint 'J. Llop-FASET' at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº [serial number] COOPERATIVA OBRERA LA REDENTORA (handstamp) Comité d'Abastos - LLOÀ VAL PER 0'05 PESSETES Lloà ... de ... de 193... El President, L'Interventor, El Dipositari J. Llop-FASET |
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Lloà is a hamlet in the Priorat comarca of southern Catalonia, a settlement of perhaps a few dozen residents in the 1930s. That a place this small issued its own fractional currency in 1937 speaks directly to the collapse of small-denomination coinage during the Civil War — Republican Spain was functionally stripped of its copper and silver small change, and the vacuum was filled by hundreds of local committees, councils, and cooperatives printing their own emergency paper.
The printer, J. Llop of Falset, handled emergency issues for several Priorat municipalities during this period. Survival rates for these hyperlocal issues are unpredictable — low original print runs, wartime destruction, and post-Franco suppression of Republican material all took their toll.