Catalog
10 Centimos Lleida; Kiosco de periódicos Fontfreda
| Issuer | Kiosco de periódicos Fontfreda (Lérida) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white ground printed entirely in dark reddish-brown letterpress. The upper portion carries the debt acknowledgement legend in two lines of graduated type, with the numeral '10' set in a large bold face accompanied by the abbreviation 'cts.' A single horizontal rule separates the denomination from the issuer details below, which read 'Kiosco de periódicos / FONTFREDA. - Lérida' in smaller spaced capitals and roman type. No pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint is present; the design relies solely on typography. |
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| Obverse lettering | Te debo 10 cts. Kiosco de periódicos FONTFREDA. - Lérida |
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Fontfreda's newsstand in Lleida issued this tiny square card during the Civil War years to address the chronic shortage of small change that paralyzed everyday commerce across Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. Fractional coinage had effectively vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and the vacuum was filled by an extraordinary proliferation of emergency issues from municipalities, cooperatives, unions, and, in cases like this one, individual private businesses.
A newsstand issuing its own currency is about as far down the chain of monetary improvisation as it gets. AL#3481 is among the more obscure Catalan vales documented by Turró's census.