Catalog
0.25 Pesetas Lluçà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Lluçà (Municipality of Lluçà) |
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| Size | 60 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Lluçà Val 0`25 ptes. CURS OBLIGATORI L`intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament (Translation: City Council of Lluçà Voucher 0.25 Pesetas Mandatory course Attempted traffic disruption of this Voucher will be severely sanctioned) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Lluçà is a small municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia — population well under a thousand even today — which makes the existence of a formal fractional emission from its ajuntament one of the more striking footnotes of the Spanish Civil War's monetary chaos. Between 1936 and 1939, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across the Republican zone forced hundreds of municipalities, down to the most obscure villages, to print their own emergency fraccions. Turró catalogued over a thousand such issuers.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication — and on notes from localities this small, the stamp is often the only thing separating an authorized emission from a forgery nobody bothered to make.