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2 Peseta Baldellou
| Issuer | Baldellou, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain face printed in black letterpress with two ruled rectangular borders at upper and lower margins framing the text block. A blue handstamp bearing the issue date is applied over the printed text, authenticating the voucher. |
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| Reverse lettering | Colectividad - Baldellou COOPERATIVA UNICA BALDELLOU |
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Baldellou is a small municipality in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca province, Aragon. During the Civil War, hundreds of Spanish towns issued their own emergency fractional currency — vales or billetes locales — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation. Republican-held rural areas were hit hardest, with copper and silver hoarded or simply absent.
The absence of a Gari catalog number suggests this piece remains unregistered or only recently documented. Local Civil War emergency issues from villages this small were printed in tiny quantities and rarely survived the postwar decades intact.