2 Pesetas Guimerà

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.