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1 Peseta La Llagosta
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Llagosta |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress issue on light grey card stock, with all text in black within a single-line rectangular border. The central legend states the issuing authority and denomination in Catalan, below which a mandatory circulation clause occupies the lower portion of the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA LLAGOSTA (Translation: City Council of La Llagosta) |
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La Llagosta is a small municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency — *moneda de necessitat* — to address the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized this improvised municipal scrip, but standardization was essentially nonexistent: each ajuntament designed and printed its own, often on whatever card stock was locally available.
Turró catalogues this as #1320, placing it within a well-documented but genuinely enormous series. Survival rates vary wildly — some La Llagosta emissions are common; others were printed in tiny runs for a population that barely exceeded a few thousand.