2 Pesetas Alcóntar

Alcóntar is a small municipality in the Sierra de los Filabres, Almería province. During the Civil War, dozens of Andalusian villages issued their own emergency paper — local councils had no choice once Republican pesetas dried up and commerce needed a medium of exchange. The Consejo Municipal issues were authorised under the broader Republican framework permitting ayuntamientos to produce local currency, but quality and backing varied wildly from one village to the next.

Gari Mon #87-A suggests an early or only known type for Alcóntar within that cataloguing system. Small-village Andalusian issues from 1937 are among the most difficult Spanish Civil War locals to source today — low original print runs, poor wartime paper, and the disruption of Nationalist advances through the region account for that scarcity.