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2 Pesetas La Selva del Camp
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Selva del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in orange and black on plain paper, with a decorative border composed of small red squares forming a series of nested rectangles. The municipal coat of arms of La Selva del Camp is positioned in the upper left corner, while the denomination and issuing authority legends are arranged in multiple lines across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Pts. L`AJUNTAMENT de LA SELVA reconeix a favor del portador DUES Pessetes La Selva del Camp / Gener del 1937 (Translation: 2 Pesetas The City Council of La Selva Recognizes in favor of the bearer Two Pesetas La Selva del Camp / January 1937) |
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La Selva del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage effectively collapsed. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local authorities to fill the vacuum, producing a wave of highly localized issues — most printed in tiny quantities and rarely leaving the immediate community.
Turró catalogues this issue but survival rates for La Selva del Camp notes are low. Small-town wartime currency typically circulated hard and was discarded once the war ended.