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10 Centimos Lleida; Kiosco de periódicos Payá
| Issuer | Kiosco de periódicos Payá (Lérida) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress throughout, with no pictorial vignette. The face value "10 cts." is set in large bold type at centre, preceded by the debt acknowledgement legend "Te debo" in matching bold lettering. A double horizontal rule separates the value from the issuer details below, where the text "Klosco de periòdicos" appears in roman type above the bold italic imprint "Payá-LÉRIDA". |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted card stock bearing a circular brown rubber stamp at centre-left, impressed with the legend "JOURNAUX ETRANGERS DE MODAS / J. PAYÁ / LÉRIDA" arranged around the inner field with a serrated border. A bold blue ink handwritten signature of the proprietor crosses the stamp diagonally, serving as a personal authentication mark. |
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One of hundreds of locally issued emergency fractional notes produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, when the hoarding of metal coinage created an acute shortage of small change almost immediately after July 1936. A newspaper kiosk issuing its own scrip is not unusual for the period — shops, bars, municipalities, and even individual market stalls printed their own substitute currency out of necessity, with no central authorization required or given.
The Aguilar-Loshuertos catalog reference places this firmly within the documented Lleida issues, though survival rates for commercial ephemera of this type are low. Most were redeemed locally or simply discarded once the war ended.