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2 Pesetas Almadén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almadén |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on salmon-orange paper stock, the obverse is typeset in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top in bold capital letters, underlined by a double horizontal rule, with 'ALMADEN' centred below in spaced capitals within a second ruled band. The denomination 'Vale por 2'00 pesetas' is set in a larger typeface at centre, with the date 'Mayo, 1937' at lower left and a sequential serial number at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL ALMADEN Vale por 2'00 pesetas Mayo, 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council Almadén Voucher for 2.00 Pesetas May, 1937) |
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Almadén's municipal council issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, as the collapse of the Republican monetary supply left small change almost entirely absent from circulation. These local notes — issued by ayuntamientos, casinos, trade unions, and cooperatives across Republican Spain — were technically illegal under central government regulations but tolerated out of necessity.
Almadén itself was strategically significant: its mercury mines, among the richest in the world, were a major Republican asset and a target of intense Nationalist pressure throughout the war. Whether that pressure disrupted the note's actual circulation life is unrecorded.