Catalog
50 Céntimos Llagostera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llagostera (Municipality of Llagostera) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Vilallonga, Cassà de la Selva, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in green letterpress ink, with a rectangular border composed of dotted rules forming a grid-like frame with corner ornaments. The central text field is set against a light rose-violet stippled underprint. The printer's imprint appears in small capitals at the lower center margin. |
| Reverse lettering | VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el terme Municipal. IMP. VILALLONGA CASSA (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipality.) |
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Llagostera is a small Catalan town in the Gironès comarca, and like hundreds of other municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money after the Republic's silver and copper coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively known as moneda local or paper de guerra — filled an acute transactional void that the central government and the Generalitat de Catalunya were slow to address. Imprenta Vilallonga in nearby Cassà de la Selva printed for several surrounding municipalities, which means design similarities across different issuers from this region are common and can cause misattribution.