Catalog
2 Pesetas Estopiñán
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estopiñán |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on white paper, the obverse is framed by a geometric guilloche border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears in the upper left corner, with the central field occupied by a block of letterpress text authorizing the note on behalf of the Municipal Council of Estopiñán. The date of issue, 1 November 1937, is stated within the text panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in green, carries a perimeter geometric guilloche frame enclosing a central landscape vignette with a panoramic view of the town of Estopiñán. A single line of obligatory-circulation text runs across the note, asserting the note's legal tender status within the municipal boundaries. |
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Estopiñán — a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia — issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War under the same authority that governed much of local Republican-controlled Spain after the July 1936 uprising disrupted the national banking system. These consell municipal notes filled a genuine void: coins had vanished from circulation almost immediately, hoarded or melted, and the central government could not supply small denominations fast enough to keep local commerce functional.
Litografia Lafont i Miralles in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these Catalan municipal emissions throughout 1936–37, which is why the printing quality here exceeds what one might expect from a village of a few hundred inhabitants.