2 Pesetas Castejón de Sos

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.