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2 Pesetas Besalú
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Condal Vila de Besalú |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA CONDAL VILA DE BESALU Val provisional nº 335 Dues pessetes 2 ptas (Translation: City Council of the condal town of Besalú Provisional voucher number 335 Two Pesetas 2 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is an unadorned plain paper surface carrying a single violet stamp impression centered on the field, bearing the name of the issuing municipal authority as the sole design element. |
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Besalú, a small Catalan town of perhaps two thousand inhabitants in 1937, issued its own emergency paper currency — as did hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 attempted, with limited success, to rein in the proliferation of local scrip. The Ajuntament's use of the honorific "Condal Vila" in the issuer name is a deliberate assertion of civic dignity under pressure.
Printed by Barnés in Palamós, a coastal press that handled several Baix Empordà and Garrotxa municipal emissions during the same period. Turró 426 is among the less frequently encountered Besalú denominations in collector holdings.