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2 Pesetas Albesa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal UGT-CNT d'Albesa |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#59 |
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| Obverse lettering | VALE POR 2 ptas. (Translation: Valid for 2 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain yellowish card stock, otherwise blank, with an oval violet handstamp applied at centre. The stamp carries the municipal council legend around its circumference and serves as the principal authentication device for this emergency issue. |
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Albesa is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded almost immediately after July 1936 — forced hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns to print their own emergency paper currency under Republican authority. These locally issued notes, generically called *moneda de paper* or *moneda de necessitat*, were produced with whatever materials were available, which is why so many are printed on card stock rather than conventional banknote paper.
The dual UGT-CNT attribution on the issuing council reflects the anarcho-syndicalist and socialist union co-governance arrangements common in Catalonia during the early war period, before Republican centralisation efforts eroded local control from 1937 onward.