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2 Pesetas Barberà de la Conca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Barberà de la Conca |
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| Size | 72 × 52 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE BARBERÀ DE LA CONCA PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR DUES PESSETES IMP. MESTRES-MONTBLANC (Translation: The City Council of Barberà de la Conca Will Pay the Bearer Two Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Typographic design printed in blue on an unadorned cream ground. The issuer's name is set in two lines across the upper field, flanking a central vignette composed of a square frame decorated with scalloped circular ornaments at each side and arrow motifs at the cardinal points, enclosing the large numeral 2. Symmetrical parallel-rule devices flank the central vignette at left and right, and the denomination word PESSETES appears in bold uppercase along the lower margin, bracketed by small diamond ornaments. |
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Barberà de la Conca is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and this note is one of hundreds of tiny emergency issues produced across Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of normal coin circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination metallic currency pushed municipalities — many with populations under a thousand — into printing their own scrip. Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc served several of these local administrations, which accounts for the typographic similarities found across multiple Turró-catalogued issues from the comarca.