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2 Pesetas Orce
| Issuer | Orce, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the note displays text arranged within a geometric border composed of dotted rules and repeated ornamental corner elements. Circular guilloche-style rosette devices flank the central text block on both sides. The entire composition is executed in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ORCE PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Dos pesetas Orce, mayo 1937 República Española (Translation: The Municipal Council of Orce Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas Orce, May 1937 Spanish Republic) |
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Orce is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 when the Republican zone faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes de necesidad* category — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often on whatever paper and printing equipment the local ayuntamiento could access. Quality and survival rates differ dramatically from town to town.
The Gari reference number being unassigned suggests this piece remains either unlisted or insufficiently documented in the main corpus, which is not unusual for the smaller Granada municipalities.