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2 Pesetas Belalcázar
| Issuer | Municipality of Belalcázar (Province of Córdoba) |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank cream-coloured card stock bearing a single large circular violet rubber stamp impression offset toward the left-centre. The stamp encloses a central vignette of a female allegorical figure with radiating rays, consistent with Republican Spanish iconography, surrounded by a circular legend identifying the issuing committee and locality. No printed text, serial numbering, or decorative elements appear outside the stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | COMITÉ DEFENSA DE LA REPÚBLICA BELALCAZAR (Translation: Committee for the Defense of the Republic, Belalcázar) |
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Belalcázar is a small municipality in the northern tip of Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it was forced to issue its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage virtually disappeared from circulation after 1936. These municipal emergency emissions — collectively documented under the Gari Moneders catalog — were purely local instruments, valid only within the issuing community and backed by nothing more than the town's word.
The Gari Mon#254-E suffix indicates this is classified as an essay or specimen variant, not a confirmed circulating issue. That distinction matters: many small Andalusian municipalities prepared emergency currency that was never formally distributed.