2 Pesetas Los Gallardos

Los Gallardos is a small municipality in Almería province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper fractional currency when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to distribute small change reliably forced municipal and even village-level bodies to print their own — these consejo issues were technically illegal under national currency law but tolerated out of necessity.

The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these Almería provincial issues, and #693-G suggests this falls within a documented but genuinely uncommon local emission. Survival rates for rural Andalusian municipales are low; most were redeemed, rejected, or simply discarded after the Nationalist takeover of the region in 1939.