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| Emittent | Consejo Municipal de Almadén |
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| Jahr | 1937 |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALMADÉN DOS PESETAS EMISIÓN - 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Almaden Two Pesetas Issue - 1937) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Brown typographic note with a single-line perimeter frame enclosing a central panel bearing the face value within a symmetrical decorative cartouche, the overall design relying on letterpress composition with minimal pictorial ornamentation beyond the enclosing border. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Almadén's municipal council issued this note during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of fractional coinage. Small change had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and hundreds of local bodies across Republican Spain were authorized, or simply took it upon themselves, to issue emergency paper. These billetes de necesidad were a practical stopgap, not a monetary policy decision.
Almadén itself was strategically significant: its mercury mines, among the richest in the world, were a genuine Republican asset with international economic implications. Whether that gave the local council any special authority or resources is unclear — the note exists because the alternative was no change at all.