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1 Peseta Lloá
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Lloá |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Josep Bassa, Mora d'Ebre, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed entirely in red on plain cream paper, enclosed within a double outer and single inner rectangular border. The issuer's name appears in large bold capitals across the top, with the bearer clause and denomination numeral and text set in two columns below; the emission date and handwritten serial number occupy the lower left, while signature lines for the Conseller de Finances and L'Alcalde with manuscript signatures in violet ink appear at the foot, above the printer's imprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LLOÁ La Dipositaria municipal pagarà al portador la quantitat de 1 pesseta Emissió de 28 Octubre 1937 Nº [serial number] Conseller Finances, L'Alcalde, IMP. BASSA - MORA D'EBRE (Translation: MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF LLOÁ / The Municipal Depositary will pay the bearer the amount of / 1 peseta / Issue of 28 October 1937 / No. [serial number] / Finance Councillor, / The Mayor, / PRINT. BASSA - MORA D'EBRE) |
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Lloá is a tiny municipality in Tarragona province, and this note is among the most obscure of the Spanish Civil War's enormous output of local emergency currency — the so-called "moneda de necessitat" issued by hundreds of Catalan and Valencian councils when Republican coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Consell Municipal commissioned Josep Bassa's print shop in Mora d'Ebre, a town on the Ebro that would itself become a front-line position during the devastating Battle of the Ebro in 1938.
Turró catalogues it at #1360 — deep in a list where even minor variations between municipalities carry weight for specialists.