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| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cogul (Municipality of Cogul) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same red card stock and is otherwise unprinted, bearing only a central oval black municipal stamp inscribed "COGUL" with an illegible interior device, serving as the sole authenticating mark on this side. |
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| Protection description | Oval black ink municipal stamp applied to both obverse and reverse as the primary means of authentication |
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Cogul is a tiny municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even in its best decades. This note was issued under the emergency local currency system that proliferated across Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War, when the collapse of normal coin supply forced municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives to print their own fractional paper. Hundreds of Catalan towns did the same between 1936 and 1939, and Turró catalogued them systematically.
The municipal stamp is the only security measure — entirely symbolic at that scale of community, where everyone knew everyone.