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0.10 Pesetas Lloà
| Issuer | Comité d'Abastos de Lloà |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1358 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed on orange-buff paper, enclosed within a single rectangular border rule. The issuing authority 'Comité d'Abastos - Lloà' is set in bold type at the top, below which the large numeral denomination '0'10' is centred, flanked by the value legend 'VAL PER ... PESSETES'. A purple oval hand-stamp of the 'Cooperativa Obrera La Redentora - Lloà' is applied upper centre, and the date line, serial number, and three manuscript signatures for El President, L'Interventor, and El Dipositari appear in the lower portion. The printer's imprint 'J. Llop-Falset' is set in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same orange-buff paper stock with no design, text, or overprint of any kind. |
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| Comments |
Lloà is a hamlet in the Priorat comarca with a population that barely reached three figures in the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own fractional currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it might seem — the Republican zone suffered a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coin from 1936 onward, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities and local committees filled the gap with paper. The Comité d'Abastos — a supply committee, not a bank — had no monetary authority in any conventional sense, yet necessity made one.
J. Llop of Falset handled a significant number of these Priorat-area emergency issues, which means the printing quality is consistent if modest. Lloà's note is among the more obscure entries in Turró's catalogue of Civil War local issues, and surviving examples are genuinely rare simply because so few were ever produced.