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2 Pesetas Premià de Mar
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Premià de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Ptes. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PREMIÀ DE MAR 2 Pessetes Curs local obligatori Abril del 1937. (Translation: 2 Pesetas Municipal Council of Premià de Mar 2 Pesetas Mandatory local currency April 1937.) |
| Reverse description | A central circular vignette printed in blue shows a traditional fishing boat drawn up on the beach, an allusion to the maritime character of the coastal town of Premià de Mar. The vignette is enclosed within an ornamental guilloche border that frames the entire reverse field. |
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Premià de Mar is a small coastal municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Consell Municipal — effectively the local revolutionary authority — authorized these notes to keep commerce moving at the neighborhood level. Printed locally by Imprenta Greco A. G., this is genuinely hyperlocal production: the press and the issuing body were almost certainly within walking distance of each other.
The 2 pesetas denomination places it at the higher end of the municipal emergency issues, most of which concentrated on 25, 50, and 75 céntimo fractions.