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2 Pesetas Fuente la Lancha
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fuente la Lancha |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on light green paper, entirely typographic in composition. The issuer name appears at the top in bold uppercase letters beneath a horizontal rule, with the locality name and province in parentheses on the following line; the denomination is stated in the centre in a mixed typeface. A serial number prefixed by the abbreviation 'No' is printed in the lower right, alongside the month and year of issue. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain light green paper stock with no design, text, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Fuente la Lancha is a small municipality in Córdoba province, and like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper when the peseta coinage needed for daily transactions simply disappeared — hoarded, melted, or physically cut off by front lines. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure worth speaking of; these notes were typically produced with whatever rudimentary press or even rubber-stamp equipment the local administration could lay hands on.
At 53 × 41 mm, this is among the smallest denominations in the Spanish Civil War municipal series — pocket change in paper form, intended for transactions where no coin existed.