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2 Pesetas Llardecans
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llardecans (Municipality of Llardecans) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Sol, Lleida, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green, the note carries the coat of arms of Catalonia at the left within a geometric border frame. The text is set in letterpress with the municipal authority's declaration in Catalan, acknowledging the bearer's entitlement to two pesetas, dated August 1937. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two sections by a dotted ornamental border. The left section provides a space reserved for the official municipal stamp, while the right section carries the note's mandatory tender certificate in Catalan letterpress text. |
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Llardecans is a small agricultural village in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and its municipal paper money was one of thousands of local emergency emissions that proliferated across Republican-held Catalonia after July 1936, when the collapse of normal banking and coin hoarding left ordinary commerce paralyzed. The Ajuntament stepped in as issuer of last resort.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled a substantial volume of these local guerra civil emissions for towns throughout the province, which is why the print quality across Turró-referenced Segrià notes is relatively consistent despite their intensely local character. Llardecans had a prewar population of only a few hundred — the practical circulation of this 2 Pessetes note would have been extremely limited by geography alone.