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2 Pesetas La Zaida
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de La Zaida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency note printed in black on plain white paper, entirely text-based with no pictorial vignette. A repeating ornamental unit forms a geometric border along all four sides, enclosing the issuing authority, locality designation, denomination in large bold type, and emission year; a circular official ink stamp is applied at centre, with a handwritten authorization paraph at lower centre. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal LA ZAIDA (Zaragoza) Este Consejo reconoce al portador, DOS Pesetas Emisión 1937. LA TIPOGRAFICA — J. SANZ CASPE (Translation: Municipal Council La Zaida (Zaragoza) This Council recognizes the bearer, Two Pesetas Issue 1937.) |
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La Zaida is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and this note is a product of the chaotic local currency explosion that swept Republican-held Aragon in 1936–37. With the banking system disrupted and small change almost impossible to obtain, hundreds of Spanish towns issued their own emergency paper — vales locales — to keep local commerce moving. The Consejo Municipal, the wartime administrative body that replaced the pre-war ayuntamiento in many Republican towns, was the issuing authority here.
La Tipografica of J. Sanz in Caspe was a workhorse printer for several of these Aragonese emergency issues, producing notes for multiple surrounding municipalities during the same period.