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2 Pesetas Oliva
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Oliva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1021-D, TurróPV#1029 |
| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black by letterpress, with a large bold numeral '2' occupying the left half of the note. To the right, the issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal / OLIVA' appears at the top, followed by a short rule, the word 'ECONOMÍA' in capitals, a second rule, and the denomination 'pesetas' in a serif italic typeface, underscored by a double rule at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock, largely unprinted, bearing a partially legible violet circular official stamp in the upper centre and a single handwritten ink signature in blue-violet across the lower half of the note. |
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Oliva is a small coastal municipality in Valencia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council stepped in to fill an acute shortage of small change after metallic coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. These emergency municipal issues — known collectively as papel moneda local — were produced under wildly varying conditions, and Oliva's are among the more rudimentary: printed locally, on card stock, and authenticated by nothing more than an official stamp.
The Turró and Garí catalogues document dozens of minor variants across this series, differing in stamp color, ink, and paper weight — distinctions that matter considerably to specialists collecting Republican-zone emergency issues.