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2 Pesetas Moratalla
| Issuer | Moratalla, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in green ink on cream paper, with a geometric double-rule border framing the entire face. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, with the municipal issuing authority and denomination text arranged across the centre and lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL de MORATALLA (Murcia) Pagará al portador 2 pesetas Moratalla, Agosto 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Moratalla (Murcia) Will pay the bearer 2 Pesetas Moratalla, August 1937) |
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Moratalla is a small town in the Murcia region, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely. These local vales and cartones were authorised under a framework that gave town councils remarkable latitude — the results varied wildly in quality and design, from near-professional lithography to hand-stamped cardstock.
The Garrió Montenegro catalogue reference (Gari Mon#973-H) places this within a documented series, which is not guaranteed for all Republican municipal issues — many smaller towns issued notes that remain unattributed or only partially catalogued.