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2 Pesetas Avinyó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Avinyó |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in dark red on cream paper, entirely text-based with no pictorial vignette. The issuer name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'AVINYÓ' appears in bold spaced capitals at the top, followed by the redemption text in three lines, and a large numeral '2' in the centre. A serial number in manuscript ink is positioned at the lower centre, above a decorative border composed of repeating oval and lozenge motifs enclosing the entire face. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'AVINYÓ RECONEIX AQUEST VAL PER LA QUANTITAT DE DUES PESSETES 2 (Translation: Municipal Council of Avinyó recognises this voucher for the amount of Two Pesetas) |
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Avinyó is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 effectively authorized local councils to produce low-denomination currency to address the acute shortage of coin in circulation. These locally printed notes — collectively known as paper moneda de guerra — were produced under wildly variable conditions, and the quality of paper, ink, and design reflects whatever materials each municipality could source at the time.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and relatively few surviving examples of Avinyó's emissions surface in the market.