2 Pesetas Mazarrón

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.