Global Barter / Europe / G019
Europe · Basque Country, Spain and France · G019
Auzolan Stone
Every household lends a hand to keep roads and fountains going.
Security Edition v2
The same note set like a banknote: full engraved portrait of Noun #35, guilloche, watermark, thread, foil stripe and microtext, all printed art. What's on it
The tradition · customary for centuries
Auzolan (auzolana; lorra in Bizkaia)
Auzolan is the Basque custom of neighbourhood work: each household gave labour, and sometimes money for materials, to build and maintain roads, fountains, churches and forest trails.
Source: Communal work (Basque Ethnography at a Glance, Labayru Fundazioa) ↗
How a note would work
Stones are earned by giving labour or materials to a shared path, fountain or garden and spent on help for your household. They are never bought or cashed out.
Design concept inspired by this tradition, not issued by or for the people who keep it. Not legal tender, not for sale, no cash value, no redemption and no investment rights.
- PlaceBasque Country, Spain and France
- Eracustomary for centuries
- RegionEurope
- UnitStone · Stones
- Face value3 Stones
- SerialGB-G019-N0035
- NounActual Noun #35 ↗
- Why this NounRead it as plumbing: a pipe for the fountains and water channels that neighbours kept running.
- Headpipe
- Glasseship rose
- Bodyfoggrey
- Accessoryflash
- Seedbg 0 · body 8 · acc 51 · head 158 · glasses 0