10 Centimos Manresa; Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes

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.