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10 Centimos La Llacuna; Cooperativa Agrícola
| Issuer | Cooperativa Agrícola de La Llacuna |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock with the issuer name 'Cooperativa Agrícola' in bold letterpress at top, underlined, above the large numeral '10' and denomination 'Cts.' in black. A red rectangular control stamp reading 'COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA LA LLACUNA' is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, showing plain unprinted card stock with a natural beige tone and no text or design elements. |
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La Llacuna is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized villages, its agricultural cooperative issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War years after the Republic's small-change crisis of 1936 left ordinary commerce paralyzed. These locally issued vales were purely functional — accepted within the cooperative's trading network and essentially worthless outside the village boundary.
The thick card stock used here was a practical necessity, not a printing choice. Paper supplies were irregular across Republican-held Catalonia by 1937, and the durability of card helped these tiny notes survive enough handling to actually function as currency.