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2 Pesetas Jaraco
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Jaraco |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black ink on plain paper, with a triple-rule rectangular border framing the entire face. Stylised floral ornaments occupy each corner, and the central text area carries the issuing authority and denomination legend in capital and lowercase roman lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single bold manuscript signature in dark ink, applied by hand across the centre of the note as the sole authenticating element. |
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Jaraco is a small municipality in the Valencia region, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper scrip when the Republic's central currency supply broke down. These municipal emissions — collectively catalogued under the "billetes locales" category — were legal only within the issuing municipality, backed by nothing more than local authority and wartime necessity. Production quality varied enormously; many were printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes on commercial letterhead paper or even cut cardstock.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly in the documented Valencia regional series, but Jaraco emissions in any denomination are genuinely scarce — the town's small population meant low print runs, and most were redeemed, lost, or destroyed before the war ended in 1939.