0.10 Pesetas Lloà

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.