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2 Pesetas Iglesuela del Cid

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Iglesuela del Cid
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Value 2 Pesetas (2 ESP)
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Obverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL IGLESUELA DEL CID Núm. Pagará al Portador DOS pesetas
(Translation: Municipal Council Iglesuela del Cid No. Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas)
Reverse description The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing the plain buff-orange card stock with visible fibrous texture throughout.
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Iglesuela del Cid is a small municipality in Teruel, Aragon, and this note is a product of the fractional currency crisis that swept Republican-held Spain from 1936 onward. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — forced hundreds of town councils to issue their own emergency paper. The Consejo Municipal had no printing infrastructure worth speaking of; these were produced locally, almost certainly on whatever card stock was available, which accounts for the unusually square, almost ticket-like format.

The Gari Monerris catalogue remains the primary reference for these Aragonese municipals, and the "A" suffix on 779A-A suggests at least one variety distinction within the type.

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