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2 Pesetas Gata de Gorgos
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Gata de Gorgos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#703-B |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE GATA DE GORGOS PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DOS PESETAS Gata de Gorgos, 1 de Marzo de 1937 2,00 / 2,00 BERNARDO MULET - GATA DE GORGOS (Translation: The Municipal Council of Gata de Gorgos Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas Gata de Gorgos, March 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 PESETAS CONSEJO MUNICIPAL GATA DE GORGOS (Translation: 2 Pesetas Municipal Council Gata de Gorgos) |
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Gata de Gorgos is a small municipality in the Alicante province of Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. These local issues — collectively known as "billetes locales" — were authorised under the chaotic decentralised monetary conditions of the Republican government, with each council essentially printing its own solution to the small-change crisis.
Survival rates for Alicante provincial municipals vary wildly. Gata de Gorgos had a population of only a few thousand, so original print runs were small.