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2 Pesetas Porcuna
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Porcuna (Popular Front of Porcuna) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with violet text on a light green underprint, the design enclosed within an ornamental rectangular frame. The municipal coat of arms of Porcuna appears to the left, while the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is rendered in the background underprint. The text block, set in a formal typeface, carries the issuing authority's declaration and the place and date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress printing on plain paper, the entire field enclosed within a sawtooth-edged dotted border forming a decorative perimeter. To the left, a square vignette carries the bold numeral '2' in white against a densely ruled brown ground; to the right, a serial number in the format 'Nº XXXXX' appears above a justified text block setting out the conditions of validity for the obligation. |
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Porcuna is a small agricultural town in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like dozens of similar municipalities across Republican Spain in the summer of 1936, it faced an acute shortage of small change almost immediately after the military uprising began. The Frente Popular local committee — not a bank, not a treasury — stepped in as issuing authority out of sheer necessity, producing emergency vouchers to keep local commerce functional.
These hyper-local Civil War emissions are among the most fragile paper money Spain ever produced: short print runs, poor materials, no security features, and a circulation that rarely extended beyond the issuing town. Many were redeemed or confiscated as Republican territory collapsed in 1939 and simply ceased to exist as valid instruments almost overnight.