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2 Pesetas Escatrón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Escatrón |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue ink, framed by a geometric border running the full perimeter. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned in the upper left corner, serving as the principal vignette. All text legends are arranged in a structured, utilitarian layout characteristic of Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal ESCATRON Vale por DOS Pesetas De curso legal en esta localidad, para facilitar el cambio, según acuerdo de este Consejo La validez la acredita el sello del Municipio estampado al dorso (Translation: Municipal Council Escatron Voucher for Two Pesetas Legal tender in this locality, to facilitate the exchange, according to the agreement of this Council Validity is confirmed by the stamp of the Municipality stamped on the back) |
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Escatrón is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, Aragon, and its local council issued small-denomination paper during the Spanish Civil War — a direct consequence of the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936. The Republican zone saw hundreds of ayuntamientos and consejos municipales produce their own emergency fractional currency, most of it crudely made and redeemed, if at all, under chaotic postwar conditions.
The Gari Montllor reference places this within the documented Aragonese emissions, but municipios of this size often printed in very small quantities. Survivors are uncommon simply because so few were made, not because of any dramatic event.