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2 Pesetas Igualada
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Igualada (Municipality of Igualada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | White card stock with the issuer's coat of arms and municipal name printed in yellow underprint. The face value is rendered in red in the foreground, with the full inscription in two lines across the central field. The overall design is minimal, consistent with wartime emergency issue practice. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`IGUALADA Val per 2 pessetes (Translation: City Council of Igualada Valid for 2 Pesetas) |
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Igualada, a textile town in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after Republican authorities requisitioned metallic coinage for the war effort. These municipal notes — often called bitllets locals — were produced by dozens of Catalan towns in 1936–37 to fill the void left by vanishing small change, and Igualada's issues are among the more robustly printed examples, struck on card stock rather than the flimsy paper many smaller municipalities used.
Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for this material; his numbering places this 2 Pesetas issue within a tightly documented local series.