Pellofa - Olot 4 Sous

The pellofas are incuse ecclesiastical coins that were given to the clergy for the performance of certain religious services mainly in the Catalan territories the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. There were civilian pellofas and in other territories and some that were not incuse. The priests of the cathedrals received a fixed payment and then they were given a few pellofas that they could exchange at the end of the month for legal currency. Now, it is true that the clergy in turn could give the pellofas to the civilian population living outside the monastery as an act of charity or as a form of payment, knowing that the recipient could exchange them for legal currency. In this simple way one can see how the pellofas circulated outside the monasteries and could be used as local currency, especially in times of scarcity. of small coins.