2 Pesetas Avinyó

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.