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2 Pesetas Lilla
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Lilla (Municipality of Lilla) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1303 |
| Obverse description | Multicolour typographic design enclosed within an ornamental geometric frame set against a background of vertical rule lines. The face value numeral appears at each lateral extremity, with the issuing authority and denomination inscriptions arranged centrally in contrasting lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Bold orange letterpress vignette composed of symmetrical floral and foliate scrollwork framing the central denomination inscription in dark red script. Series designation 'SERIE A' appears in the upper left and upper right corners above the decorative border. |
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Lilla is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, Tarragona, with a population that barely reached three figures during the 1930s. That it issued its own emergency paper money at all is the point of interest — under the Republican government's 1937 authorization, hundreds of Catalan municipalities flooded the local economy with hand-stamped cardboard notes to address the acute shortage of small coinage that wartime hoarding had produced.
Turró 1303 places this among the rarest tier of local Catalan Civil War issues, where survival rates correlate almost directly with original population size.