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2 Pesetas Galera
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Galera (Granada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#690-E |
| Obverse description | Printed in violet and red on plain paper with a dotted rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuing authority legend and municipality name appear in violet letterpress script in the upper and central fields, while the denomination DOS PESETAS is printed in bold red letterpress type in the lower centre. A circular official municipal stamp impression is applied at left, bearing the arms of the Spanish Republic. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet on plain paper with an outer rectangular border enclosing oval guilloche vignettes at each corner bearing the face value 2'00. A bold warning legend runs along the top edge, and vertical inscriptions appear along both lateral margins. The central field carries the authorising resolution text with the official oval stamp of the Secretariat of the Consejo Municipal de Galera (Granada) applied over the manuscript signatures of the Alcalde and the Secretary-Interventor. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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Galera is a small municipality in the Altiplano Granadino, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional issues that flooded Republican-held Spain after the Civil War disrupted coin circulation almost completely. The Consejo Municipal — the local war-era governing council — had no formal banking infrastructure, simply a need to pay for things and make change.
Imp. Belmonte in nearby Huéscar printed for several of these small Altiplano councils, which is why notes from Galera, Huéscar, and neighboring villages share recognizable typographic characteristics despite being formally separate issues.