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2 Pesetas Arén
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Arén |
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| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue on cream card stock, entirely textual in composition, framed by a border of five-pointed stars with circular ornaments at each corner. The issuing authority is set in bold uppercase type at the top, separated from the denomination text below by a dotted rule, with the numeral "2" rendered in a notably larger bold face. A serial number field marked "Núm." with a handwritten entry on a dotted baseline appears in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, otherwise blank, with a single circular municipal validation stamp applied in violet ink slightly left of center. The stamp carries a double-ring border with text around the circumference and a central inscription, consistent with an official Consejo Municipal seal. |
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Arén is a small municipality in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca, Aragon — one of dozens of Spanish towns that issued emergency fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively authorized local bodies to fill the coin vacuum created by hoarding and metal requisitioning. The Consejo Municipal issues from this region are among the most poorly documented in Gari's catalogue, and Arén's series is no exception: print runs are unknown, and surviving examples surface infrequently enough that establishing a reliable rarity baseline remains difficult.
The thick card construction was typical of municipalities too small to access proper banknote paper.