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2 Pesetas Mazarrón
| Issuer | Comunidad de Obreros Mineros de Mazarrón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with the local coat of arms printed in red to the left, showing a heraldic shield with mining implements. To the right, letterpress text in red reads the issuer name in two lines, with the denomination 'DOS ptas.' in large bold type across the lower portion. A partial violet oval validation stamp is visible at the upper right. |
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| Protection type | Stamp |
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Mazarrón, in Murcia, was a significant lead and silver mining center, and during the Spanish Civil War its workers' organizations took direct control of the local economy — issuing their own emergency paper to keep wages and commerce moving when coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. The Comunidad de Obreros Mineros was one of dozens of such labor bodies across Republican territory that filled the vacuum left by the collapse of normal monetary supply chains.
The stamp security feature on these notes was applied locally, often inconsistently, which means impressions vary considerably in placement and ink saturation across surviving examples.