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2 Pesetas Bigues
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bigues (Municipality of Bigues) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Gràfiques Unificades, Granollers, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette bearing the municipal seal of Bigues, with a landscape scene of a rocky outcrop and tree enclosed within the legend AJUNTAMENT BIGUES. The date of issue is split across the upper field, with MES DE JUNY to the left and ANY 1937 to the right, each flanked by ornamental scroll borders. Two circular denomination cartouches reading 2 pts are positioned at the lower left and right corners, with the issuing authority's payment obligation in Catalan printed across the lower centre; the printer's name appears at the very bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette in a pale underprint, within which the face value numeral 2 and the abbreviation PTS are set. The rosette is flanked symmetrically by two smaller circular guilloche ornaments. A serial number in black letterpress appears below the central vignette. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes printed by Catalan municipalities during the early months of the Civil War, when the Republic's central banking system had effectively ceased to function at the local level and copper coinage had been hoarded out of circulation almost overnight. Bigues — a small agricultural township north of Barcelona — was among the many Catalan ajuntaments that contracted Gràfiques Unificades in Granollers to produce these emergency pieces, which is why notes from half a dozen different municipalities share recognizable typographic DNA.
Turró catalogued this issue as #436. The Granollers printer handled a substantial volume of this work through 1937.