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2 Pesetas Guimerà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guimerà (Municipality of Guimerà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in reddish-brown ink on cream card stock, enclosed within a bold outer rule and an inner border composed of a continuous row of small squares. The issuing authority and denomination are set in a mix of script and bold roman lettering across three lines, with the word DUES in large capitals for emphasis. The date and serial number appear in the lower portion, with the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a faint oval municipal ink stamp in violet applied off-centre. The reverse carries no printed design or text other than the administrative stamp. |
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Guimerà is a village in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s — which makes the decision to issue municipal emergency currency all the more striking. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain a stable coin supply pushed hundreds of small Catalan municipalities into printing their own fractional notes, locally known as moneda local de necessitat. Guimerà was among the smallest communities to do so.
Imprenta A. Figueres in nearby Tàrrega handled several of these municipal commissions across the Urgell region. The thick card stock was a deliberate choice — flimsier paper wore out too quickly in daily market use.