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2 Pesetas Huéscar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Huéscar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue ink on coarse buff paper, entirely lacking pictorial vignettes or decorative borders. The denomination DOS PESETAS is set in large bold capitals at centre, flanked above by the issuing authority legend and below by the legal tender clause and place-date line. Two manuscript signatures in blue ink appear at the lower portion, accompanied by an official rubber stamp. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, printed on unadorned buff-toned paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Huéscar is a small town in the Granada province that fell within the Republican zone during the Civil War. Like hundreds of Spanish municipalities cut off from the banking system after July 1936, the Consejo Municipal issued its own emergency paper to keep local commerce moving. These notes had no backing beyond local authority and were redeemable — in theory — only within the issuing municipality.
The Gari Monetary catalogue documents two types for Huéscar; this is the B variant. Municipal issues from small Andalusian towns are among the most irregularly surviving of all Spanish Civil War emergency issues, with print runs often numbering in the hundreds rather than thousands.