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2 Pesetas Pallejà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pallejà (Municipality of Pallejà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the coat of arms of Catalonia framed by a decorative border of fruits and foliage, with a sunlit landscape vignette at the upper portion of the note. The face value numeral '2' appears at left, with the issuing authority and mandatory circulation text arranged in letterpress typography around the central design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 PESSETES (Translation: 2 Pesetas) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known collectively as "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after the Republican government's chronic shortage of fractional coinage left everyday commerce paralyzed. Pallejà, a small town on the Llobregat river south of Barcelona, issued its own scrip rather than wait for a central solution that never convincingly arrived.
The printer, C.A.M., produced emergency currency for numerous Catalan councils during this period, which makes attribution relatively reliable despite the chaotic conditions of wartime Barcelona.