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2 Pesetas Castellvell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellvell del Camp (Municipality of Castellvell del Camp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Handwritten text in blue ink on plain paper stock, with the issuer name applied by violet rubber stamp. Four diagonal red lines appear at the left margin and two vertical red lines at the right margin, serving as rudimentary security marks. The overall layout is simple and austere, consistent with improvised municipal emergency currency of the Spanish Civil War period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA CONST. DE CASTELLVELL L`Alcalde (Translation: Constitutional Mayoralty of Castellvell The Mayor) |
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Castellvell del Camp is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's decree authorizing local currency emissions gave legal cover to these issues, but in practice each municipality printed what it could afford and distribute. Turró catalogues this 2 Pesetas note as #771, placing it within a vast, poorly-documented family of wartime local issues.
Survival rates for Castellvell del Camp emissions are low — the town's population was under a thousand, meaning total print runs were small.