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2 Pesetas Muro de Alcoy
| Issuer | Muro de Alcoy, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#985-E |
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| Obverse lettering | El Comercio de esta localidad entregará al portador en especie o metálico la cantidad de 2 Pesetas Muro del Alcoy y Mayo 1937 (Translation: The Commerce of this town will deliver to the bearer in kind or cash the amount of 2 Pesetas, Muro de Alcoy, May 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse bearing a single handwritten signature in ink, with a large flourished paraph below. No printed design, text, or border is present. |
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Muro de Alcoy is a small municipality in the Valencian Community, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed almost entirely. The copper and silver had vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply gone — and local councils filled the vacuum with cardboard and paper chits backed by nothing more than municipal authority and necessity.
The Gari Mon catalog remains the primary reference for these Spanish Civil War local issues, and the 985-E suffix indicates a specific variety within the Muro de Alcoy series.