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10 Centimos Manresa; Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes
| Issuer | Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Reddish-brown letterpress text on plain stock, enclosed within a thick rectangular border with rounded corners. The issuer name and address appear in the upper register, with the voucher denomination stated in the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes Mallorca, 35 --- Manresa VAL per 10 cts. (Translation: Creamery of Maurici Casasayes Voucher for 10 Centimos) |
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Manresa, a textile and industrial city in Catalonia's Bages comarca, was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities where the collapse of small-denomination coinage after July 1936 forced private businesses to issue their own emergency scrip. Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes — a dairy shop — issued this 10 céntimos note as a functional substitute for the copper and nickel coins that had vanished from circulation almost overnight, hoarded or melted as the war economy took hold.
The AL catalogue reference places it within the massive Albertí-Llordés survey of Catalan Civil War local issues, a body of emergency currency so vast it remains only partially documented. A dairy issuing circulating scrip is about as grassroots as wartime monetary improvisation gets.