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2 Pesetas El Vendrell
| Issuer | El Vendrell, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on orange-tinted paper in black letterpress, the note is enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The denomination '2'00' appears in the upper left corner, with the issuing authority 'Generalitat de Catalunya' in large Gothic-style type across the top, followed by 'Departament d'Assistencia Social' and a bold Gothic heading for refugee assistance. The body text sets out the bearer obligation in Catalan, dated El Vendrell, October 1937, with a handwritten presidential signature to the right of a four-digit serial number at lower left, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Generalitat de Catalunya / Departament d'Assistencia Social Assistencia als Refugiats del Municipi d'El Vendrell AL PORTADOR, se li deu DUES PESSETES valor que li serà reintegrat quan la Generalitat aboni el deute del mes de JULIOL. El Vendrell, octubre del 1937 (Translation: Generalitat de Catalunya / Department of Social Assistance Assistance to Refugees of the Municipality of El Vendrell The bearer owes Two Pesetas value which will be refunded when the Generalitat pays the debt for the month of July. El Vendrell, October 1937) |
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El Vendrell is a small Catalan town south of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed. These local issues — known collectively as the "Guerra Civil" municipals — were produced under wildly varying conditions, and the Barnadas print shop in El Vendrell handled this series in-house, which kept quality reasonably consistent within the town's own emissions.
Turró catalogues thousands of these issues; #2714 places this squarely in the dense mid-war period of Catalan municipal printing. Survival rates vary sharply by town — smaller print runs from minor municipalities tend to be genuinely scarce, while larger nearby towns saturated local circulation and examples turn up more often.