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2 Pesetas Buñol
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Buñol |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on yellow-orange card stock in dark red letterpress throughout. The issuer name "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BUÑOL" appears at the top, underlined by a horizontal rule, with the denomination legend "Vale por DOS pesetas" in large bold type below. A handwritten serial number is inscribed above the denomination line, and a circular municipal ink stamp appears at the left; three manuscript signatures are distributed across the lower portion under the printed role designations "El Alcalde," "El Depositario," and "El Interventor." |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BUÑOL Vale por DOS pesetas El Alcalde, El Depositario, El Interventor, (Translation: Municipal Council of Buñol Voucher for Two Pesetas The Mayor, The Treasurer, The Comptroller,) |
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Buñol is a small town in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency scrip when the Republican government's currency system fragmented and metallic coin vanished almost entirely from circulation. These consejo municipal notes were stopgap solutions — locally authorized, locally printed, and of no value beyond the issuing town's borders.
The thick card stock was deliberate: small-format scrip on flimsy paper disintegrated quickly in daily use, and municipal councils learned fast.