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2 Pesetas Castilléjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castilléjar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CASTILLEJAR (Granada) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 2 pesetas EN PAPEL MONEDA DE CURSO LEGAL Castilléjar y mayo 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Castilléjar (Granada) Will pay the bearer 2 Pesetas In paper-money legal tender Castilléjar, May, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the plain grey-green paper stock with no lettering, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Castilléjar is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not reaching rural areas. These municipal emissions were a decentralized stopgap, authorized loosely by the Republican government but designed and produced locally with whatever printing resources were at hand.
Gari Montllor catalogues two variants for Castilléjar's 2 Pesetas emission; this is the B type. The distinctions between A and B in this series are typically typographic or ink-related rather than substantive redesigns.