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50 Centimos Mura; Fleca i Queviures Josep Llobet
| Issuer | Fleca i Queviures Josep Llobet, Mura |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 52 x 51 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress coupon in black ink on cream card stock, enclosed within a double-rule border with dotted and dashed inner frame. Issuer name, proprietor, and locality are set in graduated boldface type, with the denomination 'CUPÓ DE 50 cènts.' in large display letters at centre. Printer's imprint appears at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain cream card stock, showing the fibrous texture of the thick paper substrate with no design, text, or markings. |
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Josep Llobet's bakery and provisions shop in Mura issued this token note during the Civil War years, when the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation forced individual tradespeople across Catalonia to print their own fractional scrip. Hundreds of local businesses, cooperatives, and municipalities did the same — Imprenta Rubiralta in Manresa supplied many of them, turning out small runs for clients across the Bages comarca.
Mura is a tiny mountain municipality; the village population in the 1930s was well under five hundred. Llobet's issue would have circulated among a tight, known community, making formal redemption largely a matter of trust rather than procedure.