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2 Pesetas Castejón de Sos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castejón de Sos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Centre d'Administració Municipal (C.A.M.), Casanova 55, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown-black by letterpress, the reverse is centred on a circular vignette enclosing the numeral '2' and the abbreviated denomination 'PTAS', surrounded by a wreath of stylised floral and foliate ornaments. The issuing authority's name arches around the upper portion of the central motif, while a legend of mandatory legal tender status for the municipal district runs in a band around the lower register, the whole composition framed by a simple ruled border. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CASTEJON DE SOS 2 PTAS Billete de curso forzoso en el Distrito municipal de Castejón de Sos (Translation: Municipal Council Castejón de Sos 2 Pesetas Banknote of mandatory legal tender in the Municipal District of Castejón de Sos) |
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Castejón de Sos is a small village in the Aragonese Pyrenees — population in the hundreds — yet like hundreds of other Republican municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. The hoarding of metal coins became so severe by mid-1937 that the Republican government effectively permitted local councils to fill the gap themselves, producing a chaotic patchwork of hyperlocal scrip.
The Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona served as a clearinghouse printer for many of these Catalan and Aragonese municipal issues, which is why notes from geographically distant villages share nearly identical typographic layouts.