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2 Pesetas Gualchos
| Issuer | Consejo Obrero Campesino de Gualchos |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark ink on red paper, the face is framed by a geometric border with repeating rosette and dot ornaments at the corners and sides. The denomination 'DOS PESETAS' is set in large bold letterpress type at the left, flanked above by the issuing authority 'Consejo Obrero Campesino / GUALCHOS (Granada)' in bold capitals. A redemption clause occupies the central field, below which appear three manuscript signature lines designated for El Presidente, El Secretario, and El Tesorero, accompanied by an applied circular official stamp of the Consejo Obrero Campesino de Gualchos. |
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| Reverse description | Plain red paper reverse bearing the blind impression of the official circular stamp of the Consejo Obrero Campesino de Gualchos, visible in mirror image through the thin stock, with no additional printed design elements. |
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Gualchos is a small municipality in the Granada province of Andalusia, and its wartime scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of locally issued Republican emergency currency that proliferated during the Spanish Civil War after the breakdown of normal monetary supply chains in 1936–37. The issuer — a workers' and peasants' council — reflects the anarcho-syndicalist and left-Republican structures that briefly governed much of rural Andalusia before Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region.
Papelería Lacoste in Almería handled printing for several of these local issues, which accounts for a degree of consistency in paper stock across otherwise unrelated municipal emissions from the area. Gualchos itself fell under Nationalist control by early 1937, making the active circulation window for this note extremely short.