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2 Pesetas Alacón
| Issuer | Alacón, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with all text applied by letterpress in purple/blue ink. The face bears the denomination in bold typescript, the issuing locality and date, and the titles of the two authorising officials, below which two handwritten signatures in green ink appear alongside a manuscript serial number in the upper portion. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse bearing a single oval municipal rubber stamp impression containing the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, serving as the sole authentication device on this side. |
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Alacón is a village in the province of Teruel, Aragon — deep in territory where the front lines during the Spanish Civil War disrupted coin supply so severely that hundreds of municipalities issued their own emergency paper. This 2 pesetas note is part of that municipal money wave of 1937, when the Republican zone effectively ran out of small-denomination coinage and local authorities were left to improvise. The sole security feature is an official stamp, which in practice was whatever rubber or metal die the local administration happened to own.
Gari Mon #34-C suggests multiple variants exist for Alacón's emissions — the suffix lettering in Gari's catalog typically distinguishes differences in stamp color, ink, or paper stock rather than denomination changes.