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5 Centimos Manresa; Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes
| Issuer | Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Lleteria de Maurici Casasayes Mallorca, 35 --- Manresa VAL per 5 cts. (Translation: Creamery of Maurici Casasayes Voucher for 5 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank cream-coloured card stock, bearing an applied ink stamp mark. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the hoarding of metal coinage created acute small-change shortages across Republican-held territory. Local businesses, cooperatives, and municipal bodies across Catalonia responded by issuing their own emergency fractional currency — these are known collectively as moneda local or paper moneda. This particular piece comes from a dairy shop, a lleteria, operated by one Maurici Casasayes in Manresa, a textile and industrial town in the Bages comarca of Catalonia.
The Albertí catalog reference AL#3184 places it within the exhaustive Catalan Civil War emergency issues documentation. Thousands of distinct local issuers exist across that catalog — a dairy among them is entirely unremarkable for the period.