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2 Pesetas Canena
| Issuer | Canena, Municipality of |
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| Size | 63 × 31 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink with a geometric border framing the entire face; vertical stripe underprint fills the interior field. The central inscription identifies the issuing authority and denomination in bold capital lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | - No doblarlo - (Translation: Don't bend it) |
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Canena is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War period — specifically the 1936–1937 wave of local scrip produced when the Republican government's centralized coin supply collapsed almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising. These municipal notes, collectively called "billetes locales" or "vales," were produced under desperate conditions, often by local printers with no experience in security printing.
At 63 × 31 mm, this is an unusually narrow strip — more receipt than banknote.