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2 Pesetas Castell de Ferro
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castell de Ferro |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Red paper note with dark blue letterpress text and a dotted geometric border framing the entire face. The denomination '2 PTAS.' appears in a panel at the left, flanked by ornamental column motifs, while the issuer's name 'Consejo Municipal de Castell de Ferro' is set in bold display type to the right. A Gothic-script clause guaranteeing redemption in Banco de España notes occupies the centre, below which a manuscript signature of the Depositario appears alongside a small floral ornament; the printer's imprint 'Papelería Lacoste-Almería' runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 PTAS. Consejo Municipal de Castell de Ferro Valor depositado reintegrable en billetes del Banco de España. El Depositario, (Translation: 2 Pesetas Municipal Council of Castell de Ferro Deposited value refundable in banknotes of the Bank of Spain. The Depositary,) |
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Castell de Ferro is a small coastal municipality in Granada province, and its wartime municipal scrip is among the more obscure emissions from the Republican zone during the Civil War. The Consejo Municipal — effectively the local governing committee under wartime conditions — issued these notes to address the acute shortage of small coinage that plagued Republican-held territory from 1936 onward. Madrid's inability to supply adequate fractional currency pushed hundreds of municipalities to print their own.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería handled production for several local authorities in the region, which gives this note a traceable provenance unusual among provincial emergency emissions of the period.