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2 Pesetas Castril
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Castril (Granada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed on rose-red paper, the obverse carries all text in black letterpress on an unadorned ground. The issuing authority and place of origin are stated in the upper portion, with the denomination DOS PESETAS set in large bold type across the centre, flanked by a circular violet official council stamp. A handwritten serial number appears in the upper right corner, and the date of issue is given at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE CASTRIL (GRANADA) PAGARA AL PORTADOR DOS PESETAS EN PAPEL MONEDA DE CURSO LEGAL Castril y abril de 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Castril (Granada) Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas In legal tender paper money Castril, April 1937) |
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Castril is a small municipality in the northeastern corner of Granada province, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper money when coinage all but vanished from circulation by mid-1937. The Republican government's inability to supply small change to rural municipalities meant councils were legally permitted — and practically forced — to print their own.
The Garrió Montagut catalog reference is incomplete for this note, which itself suggests survival is sparse. Local Valencian and Andalusian issues at the 2-peseta denomination were often printed in very small runs on whatever paper stock was available, and attrition has been severe.