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50 Céntimos Lluçà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Lluçà |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name "Ajuntament de Lluçà" appears at the top, underlined by a double rule, above a hand-stamped oval municipal seal in violet ink enclosing a small central vignette of a sheaf with flanking branches and a serial number above it. The denomination "Val 50 cèntims" is printed in large bold type at centre, with the mandatory circulation notice "CURS OBLIGATORI" below, and a penal warning legend in smaller type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain cream card stock with no design, lettering, or decorative elements. |
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Lluçà is a tiny municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War. These local issues — collectively called "moneda de necessitat" or "guerra civil" notes — flooded the region from 1936 onward as the Republican government struggled to maintain coin circulation. A municipality with a population that could fit in a modest church hall was nonetheless authorized to print its own fractional currency.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan local emissions, and the low sequence number here reflects Lluçà's modest output. Survivorship is unpredictable — some village issues are common, others essentially unfindable.