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2 Pesetas Busquístar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Busquístar |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain reverse, bearing a circular red ink official seal of the Consejo Municipal de Busquistar applied at centre, with a handwritten manuscript signature superimposed across the seal in black ink as an authentication device. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BUSQUISTAR |
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Busquístar is a village in the Alpujarra Granadina with a population that rarely exceeded a few hundred, which makes the existence of a municipally issued emergency note here both entirely predictable and genuinely remarkable. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held territory forced hundreds of municipalities — including the most remote — to print their own substitute currency under a 1936 decree authorizing local councils to do so.
The Garicosts reference being incomplete suggests this piece has not been formally catalogued or verified against a type specimen, and surviving examples from villages this small are correspondingly rare.