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2 Pesetas Begíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Begíjar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a dark blue letterpress text layout. Horizontal ruled borders run along the top and bottom edges, and a serial number preceded by a six-pointed asterisk ornament appears vertically along the left margin. The denomination is set in a graduated typeface, with the issuing authority name in bold capital letters at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream paper with a faint oval blind or rubber stamp impression visible at centre, the text of which is largely illegible. Horizontal ruled borders are present along the top edge, consistent with the obverse border treatment. |
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Begíjar is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, with a population that barely reached 3,000 even at its peak. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of similarly small Republican-controlled towns issued their own emergency paper money — moneda local de necesidad — after the Nationalist uprising disrupted banking and drained metallic currency from circulation. Most of these councils had no printing infrastructure; many notes were produced on whatever stock was available, often with rubber stamps and handwritten serial numbers.
Documentation on the Begíjar series remains sparse in the major Spanish local issues catalogs, which itself signals a low original print run.