2 Pesetas Gata de Gorgos

Gata de Gorgos is a small inland town in Alicante province, and this 2 pesetas note was issued not by a municipal body but by the Sección de Trabajadores del Comercio y Oficinas — the local commerce and office workers' union section affiliated with the CNT-UGT trade union structure that administered much of Republican-held civilian life after July 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced hundreds of such bodies — unions, municipalities, collectives — to print their own emergency fractional currency throughout 1937.

The Gari Montaner catalogue reference confirms its place within the extraordinarily dense ecosystem of Valencian Community local issues, many of which survive in tiny quantities.