1kg Salt Ampudia, Palencia

Ampudia is a small Castilian municipality in Palencia province, and this 1942 salt voucher reflects a rationing infrastructure that the Franco regime imposed across Spain following the Civil War. The Ayuntamiento — the local council — issued scrip denominated in physical commodities rather than pesetas because centrally allocated goods were distributed by quota, not price. Salt was among the most tightly controlled staples.

Local-issue Spanish ration vouchers from this period were printed in enormous variety by municipal governments working with whatever printer was available, which accounts for the wide inconsistency in paper quality and typography across the series. Most were never catalogued systematically.