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2 Pesetas Pacheco
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Pacheco |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design printed entirely in red on cream paper, with a multi-rule geometric border composed of nested rectangular frames. The issuer name PACHECO appears in large bold display type at the upper left, followed by the mandatory circulation legend in two lines across the centre. A handwritten serial number in black ink occupies the lower left, with the denomination DOS ptas. set in large bold type beneath it; the authority line El Alcalde appears to the right of the serial number field. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper, with a faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression visible as a mirror image. A pale ghost of the obverse rectangular border frame can be discerned at the lower portion of the reverse. |
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Ayuntamiento de Pacheco issued these emergency fractional notes — known as billetes de necesidad — during the early weeks of the Spanish Civil War, when Republican-zone municipalities faced an acute shortage of small change after hoarding stripped coins from circulation almost overnight. Local councils across Murcia and the Levant improvised their own scrip, often with rudimentary printing, to keep market transactions functioning.
The Gari Montaner catalogue remains the authoritative reference for this provincial Spanish Civil War material, though survival rates for small-denomination municipal issues vary sharply by locality.