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2 Pesetas Forcall
| Issuer | El Centro Obrero Forcallense (Cooperativa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in blue-grey ink using letterpress. To the left, the numeral "2" above the word "Pesetas" is enclosed within a simple rectangular frame with short vertical rules below. To the right, the issuer name "El Centro Obrero Forcallense (Cooperativa)" is set in bold type, followed by the bearer clause and date, with a manuscript signature of the depositary below. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, without any printed design, lettering, or decorative elements, consistent with the austere production methods of Spanish Civil War-era local emergency currency. |
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El Centro Obrero Forcallense was a workers' cooperative in Forcall, a small municipality in the Castellón province of Valencia, that began issuing emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Spanish Civil War. The collapse of metallic coinage circulation — silver and copper hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising — forced hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across Republican Spain to print their own substitute currency. This note is one of the products of that improvised monetary system.
At 57 × 35 mm, it is among the smallest paper currency formats produced during the war. The Gari Montllor census, the primary reference for Spanish Civil War local issues, documents Forcall's cooperative output across several denominations; survivorship is low across the entire series.