2 Pesetas Huéscar

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.