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2 Pesetas Massalcoreig
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Massalcoreig |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed by letterpress on buff card stock in dark blue ink, the note carries the issuer's name in large bold type across the upper half, with three vertical rules along the left margin serving as a simple decorative border element. A solid inverted triangle is centered in the middle field, overlaid by an oval official stamp of the Consell Municipal de Massalcoreig in violet ink with a manuscript signature in blue ink. The denomination "val per 2 ptes." appears in large bold letterpress type in the lower half, with the printer's imprint "Imp. Payà.-Lleida" in small type at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Massalcoreig Val per 2 ptes. (Translation: Municipal Council of Massalcoreig Voucher for 2 Pesetas) |
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Massalcoreig is a village in the Segrià comarca of Lleida with a population that barely reached 500 during the 1930s. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency paper currency is entirely typical of the Spanish Civil War period — the Republican zone suffered a catastrophic small-change shortage from 1936 onward, and hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments and consells printed their own local scrip simply to keep markets functioning. The Consell Municipal here turned to Imprenta Payà in Lleida, the regional print shop that produced a significant number of these provincial emergency issues across the Segrià.
Survival rates for Massalcoreig issues are low. Small-run village scrip was rarely preserved systematically.