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2 Pesetas Mequinenza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Mequinenza |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in reddish brown ink over a light pink underprint of repeating dot and text patterns, the face is enclosed within a plain linear rectangular border. The central text block states the denomination and issuing authority, with supplementary text specifying that five such vouchers are redeemable on presentation for ten silver pesetas or equivalent legal-tender paper, dated Mequinenza, 15 April 1937. |
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| Reverse lettering | Certificado de plata de curso obligatorio en Mequinenza (Zaragoza) Vale 2 pesetas (Translation: Silver certificate of mandatory currency in Mequinenza (Zaragoza) Value 2 Pesetas) |
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Mequinenza was a small mining town on the Ebro in Aragón, and like dozens of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, its council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republican monetary system fragmented and small change became impossible to obtain through normal channels. These local "guerra civil" notes were authorised under Republican decrees that briefly legitimised municipal emission — a practical concession to fiscal chaos rather than a policy anyone designed in advance.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida printed for several surrounding councils during this period. The sole security measure, an official stamp, was typical of the constraints: no intaglio, no watermark, just administrative ink on commercial paper.