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2 Pesetas Lécera
| Issuer | Lécera, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Oval hand-applied ink stamp of the Colectividad Libre Comité Administrativo of Lécera applied to the reverse, required for validity as stated on the obverse |
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Lécera is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and in 1937 it sat directly in the shifting frontline territory of the Aragon front. Like dozens of Aragonese villages under Republican control during this period, the local council issued its own emergency fractional currency — paper vales — to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage, which had been hoarded, melted, or simply withdrawn from circulation as the war destabilized normal commerce.
The Gari Monetary catalog documents over a thousand such local emissions from the Spanish Civil War; this 2 Pesetas piece from Lécera is among the less frequently encountered, reflecting the village's small population and limited issue volume. An official stamp served as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — modest, but adequate for a note expected to circulate only within a single township.