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2 Pesetas El Masroig
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Masroig |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. A double-ruled rectangular frame with dotted inner border occupies the upper portion, enclosing the issuer inscription in two lines; small circular rosette ornaments anchor each lower corner of the frame. Below, the denomination is stated in two lines, with "VAL" in spaced capitals above the large bold text "DOS pessetes". |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream card stock bearing a single red circular official validation stamp applied at centre, partially legible, reading "..CIPAL - CONS.." around the circumference with internal hatched lines, serving as the authorising seal of the issuing municipal council. |
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El Masroig is a small wine-producing municipality in the Priorat comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's monetary system fractured and metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation. These hyper-local notes — collectively catalogued under the billetes locales or moneda municipal umbrella — were produced in enormous variety, typically by local printers or even by hand, with an official stamp providing the only real authentication.
The Turró reference places this squarely within that documented municipal series. Card stock construction was common for denominations intended to survive repeated handling in a small local economy, where the same note might change hands dozens of times before being redeemed — if redemption ever came at all.