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2 Pesetas Fortuna
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Fortuna (Municipality of Fortuna, Murcia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#668-D |
| Obverse description | Typographic letterpress note printed in pink and green inks, enclosed within a double-line perimeter border. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is placed at the upper centre, with the issuing authority designation and denomination text arranged in the field below in a purely typographic layout, devoid of any pictorial vignette. Denomination and emission date legends are distributed across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE FORTUNA (Murcia) PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DOS pesetas EMISIÓN 22 FEBRERO 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Fortuna (Murcia) Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas Issue February 22, 1937) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage in the Republican zone forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency paper currency — these are the billetes locales, and Fortuna's 2 pesetas issue is among the more obscure examples from Murcia province. The Ayuntamiento had no access to professional printers; most of these local emissions were produced on whatever press was available in town, often a newspaper or commercial job printer, which accounts for the crude typography and variable ink quality typical of the Fortuna series.
Gari Montllor's catalog reference 668-D places this within a known but sparsely documented group. Survival rates for Murcian municipal issues are low — few circulated long before being displaced by official Republican small change or simply falling apart.