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2 Pesetas L'Arboç
| Issuer | Ajuntament de L'Arboç (Municipality of L'Arboç) |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock bearing the face value '2'00' in large red letterpress numerals to the left. Overlaid at centre is a circular violet ink-pad municipal seal reading 'AJUNTAMENT DE L'ARBOÇ' around the perimeter and 'Departament d'Economia i Proveïments' within the inner field, validating the note as an official Civil War-era emergency issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2`00 AJUNTAMENT DE L`ARBOÇ Departament d`Economia i Preveïments (Translation: City Council of l`Arboç Department of Economy and Provisions) |
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L'Arboç is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. These local municipal notes — known collectively as moneda local or guerra civil paper — were produced in extraordinary variety, with quality ranging from crude rubber-stamp affairs to reasonably competent small-format printing. This piece falls toward the more organized end of that spectrum, produced by a commercial print shop in the nearby town of El Vendrell.