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2 Pesetas Herrera de los Navarros
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Herrera de los Navarros |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light green underprint with dark letterpress text forming the body of the certificate; the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, accompanied by a vignette of a woman with a radiant sun. The note is laid out in the style of a municipal warrant, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in bold lettering across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-yellow paper reverse, validated by an applied oval blue ink stamp reading CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / Herrera de los Navarros / (Zaragoza), with a handstamped serial number in the upper right corner, as required by the obverse inscription. |
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Herrera de los Navarros is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and this 2 pesetas note is one of the thousands of emergency fractional currency issues that flooded Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Consejo Municipal — the local governing council — had no formal banking authority; necessity manufactured it. These village-level emissions were purely local instruments, often usable only within the issuing municipality.
The Gari Montanés catalogue reference confirms its place in what is a substantial but poorly documented series. Many of these notes were printed in tiny quantities on whatever materials were available, and survival rates vary enormously from one township to the next.