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2 Pesetas Batea
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Batea |
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| Printer | Imprenta Josep Bassa, Mora d'Ebre, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black ink on plain paper, the note is framed by a double-rule border composed of square dot ornaments. The four-barred coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner as the emblem of the issuing authority, while the body carries multi-line Catalan-language text setting out the terms of obligation, with the denomination stated in words. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipal seal hand-stamped onto the reverse as the primary authentication device. |
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Batea is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper money when the Republican government's currency supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal turned to the nearest available printer — Josep Bassa in Mora d'Ebre, roughly 15 kilometers away — producing a series of vales that circulated purely within the town's own economy.
The sole security feature was an official stamp applied after printing, a measure as improvised as the notes themselves. Turró catalogues these emissions exhaustively; #315 places this 2 Pessetes within a documented local series, though survival rates for Terra Alta municipal issues remain uneven.