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2 Pesetas Albánchez
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Albánchez |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark red ink with a geometric perimeter frame enclosing the central text; a violet guilloche underprint covers the background throughout. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears to the left of the inscriptions, which state the issuing authority, place of issue, date, and face value. |
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| Reverse lettering | Pesetas 2 Pesetas |
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Albánchez is a tiny municipality in the Sierra de los Filabres, Almería province, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when the peseta coinage supply collapsed after 1936. These locally printed emergency notes — collectively catalogued under the "billetes locales" or guerra civil municipal issues — were produced in vast quantities across Republican Spain, many by village councils with no printing infrastructure beyond a local press or duplicator. Quality and longevity of issue varied enormously.
Gari Monetario reference 49-D places this squarely among the documented Albánchez series, suggesting at least minor typographic or color variants exist within the run.