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2 Pesetas Castelldans
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelldans (Municipality of Castelldans) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 107 × 64 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in brown, with the face value numeral '2' and the denomination 'PESSETES' set within a simple rectangular frame composed of thick ruled borders, against a background of uniform small square guilloche patterns. |
| Reverse lettering | 2 PESSETES (Translation: 2 Pesetas) |
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Castelldans is a small agricultural village in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own paper currency when the collapse of normal banking channels left communities without small change. These local emissions — known collectively as paper moneda — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree of late 1936, which attempted to bring some order to what had already become a chaotic patchwork of improvised local scrip.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and 705 places Castelldans among the smaller, less-documented emissions. Survival rates for village-level issues from the Garrigues tend to be low — the communities were small, print runs were modest, and little was preserved once Nationalist forces consolidated control over the region in early 1938.