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2 Pesetas Fayón
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fayón |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency note printed in black on a red horizontal-line underprint, enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold letterpress type at centre, with the date of issue incorporated into the body text. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE FAYÓN EMISIÓN 15 ENERO DE 1938 2 Ptas. (Translation: Municipal Council of Fayón Issue January 15, 1938 2 Pesetas) |
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Fayón is a small municipality in Zaragoza province that found itself in a particularly precarious position during the Civil War — the Ebro front ran directly through the region, and the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, the war's longest and bloodiest engagement, was fought in the immediate vicinity. Local emergency currency of this kind was a practical necessity when normal monetary supply collapsed entirely under wartime conditions.
Municipal issues from villages this small are among the most difficult Spanish Civil War notgeld to locate today. Low print runs, paper quality never intended for longevity, and the chaos of the Republican collapse in late 1938 all worked against survival.