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2 Pesetas Belalcázar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Belalcázar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in black letterpress. The issuer's name, CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BELALCAZAR, appears in large bold capitals across the top, separated from the body text by a fine rule of repeated vertical strokes. The bearer voucher text and the denomination DOS pesetas are set in bold type, the latter underscored by a solid horizontal rule; two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, captioned El Interventor and El Depositario respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BELALCAZAR VALE a favor del portador por DOS pesetas El Interventor, El Depositario, (Translation: Municipal Council of Belalcázar / Voucher in favor of the bearer for / Two pesetas / The Controller, / The Treasurer,) |
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Belalcázar is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency scrip during the Civil War after small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. The Consejo Municipal issues were purely functional stopgaps — authorized at the local level, backed by nothing more than municipal credibility, and often redeemable only within the issuing town's own commerce.
The thick card stock construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and used whatever printing resources existed locally, often a town printer working with commercial card.