Catalog
5 Céntimos Lloret de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Lloret de Mar (Municipality of Lloret de Mar) |
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| Size | 38 × 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset entirely in red letterpress on cream card stock within a double-rule rectangular border, the face presents the issuing authority's name at the head, a bold central denomination in large numerals with abbreviated unit designation, and the locality name at the foot. The composition is strictly textual with no vignette or ornamental underprint, relying on the hierarchical arrangement of inscriptions for its layout. The unadorned, utilitarian character is consistent with the emergency local currency issues of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT Val 5 cts. Lloret de Mar (Translation: City Council / It is worth / 5 Centimos / Lloret de Mar) |
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Lloret de Mar, like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities, issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by wartime disruption. These local issues, known as *moneda local* or *vals*, were a grassroots monetary response, not a sanctioned banking operation. The Ajuntament simply ordered what it needed from a local printer and put it into use.
Casa Franquet in Girona supplied a number of municipal issues across the province, which gives this note a degree of regional consistency in production quality. At roughly 38 × 35 mm, this is among the smallest pieces of circulating paper money issued anywhere in the conflict.