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2 Pesetas Fonelas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fonelas |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on coarse plain paper, the note carries the issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de Fonelas' in bold display type across the top, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule. A bearer clause appears centrally, with the denomination rendered as '2'00' in a large typeface below. |
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| Protection type | Handstamp |
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Fonelas is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish villages, it resorted to locally issued paper during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. These municipal emergency emissions — known collectively as "papel moneda local" — were authorised under increasingly desperate conditions, produced with whatever materials were at hand, and often validated by nothing more than a rubber stamp and a signature from whoever held municipal authority at the time.
The Gari Montañana reference is unassigned, suggesting this piece remains incompletely catalogued. That alone makes it worth documenting carefully.