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2 Pesetas Almuradiel
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Almuradiel |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ALMURADIEL pagará al portador DOS PESETAS Emisión 1937. TIP. MINERVA - MANZANARES (Translation: The Municipal Council of Almuradiel will pay the bearer Two Pesetas. Issue 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper reverse, typical of wartime municipal emergency issues produced under austere printing conditions during the Spanish Civil War. |
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Almuradiel is a small municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican zone's supply of small coins dried up almost entirely after 1936. These locally-printed billetes de necesidad were never legal tender beyond the issuing municipality's boundaries — often, in practice, not even that far.
Tipografía Minerva was based in nearby Manzanares, the regional printing center for several such emissions across La Mancha. The Gari Montaner catalogue number 149-E indicates a variant within the Almuradiel series, suggesting at least minor distinguishing characteristics between issues.