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2 Pesetas Guimerà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guimerà (Municipality of Guimerà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Guimerà Val per DUES pessetes Nobre. 1937 Nº 5365 IMP. LLLIB. A. FIGUERES - TÀRREGA (Translation: City Council of Guimerà / Valid for TWO pesetas / November 1937 No. 5365 / Printer: A. Figueres Bookshop-Press, Tàrrega) |
| 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.