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2 Pesetas Granyena de les Garrigues
| Issuer | Comite Antifeixista de Granyena de les Garrigues |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with all text produced by typewriter, arranged in spaced lines across the face. A large oval municipal stamp in violet ink is applied centrally, overlapping the printed text. A handwritten annotation reading "U.G.T." appears to the left, and a horizontal dashed rule separates the issuer legend from the value and date lines below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears typewritten text with the authorization formula "Per el Comite" and the designation "L'Alcalde" (the Mayor) to the right, alongside the abbreviation "P.O". Two manuscript signatures are applied in ink below the date line, serving as validation by committee officials. |
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Granyena de les Garrigues is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency in the summer and autumn of 1936 after the military uprising disrupted the normal supply of small change. The Comitè Antifeixista — the local revolutionary committee that briefly assumed administrative control — had the practical authority to issue these notes, though that authority had no formal legal basis beyond the anarchist and left-republican coalition that held the town.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand such local emissions from Catalonia alone. Most were printed in tiny quantities on whatever stock was available locally.