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2 Pesetas Puertollano
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Puertollano (Municipality of Puertollano) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note of typographic letterpress execution, entirely without pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. The issuer's name "AYUNTAMIENTO / PUERTOLLANO" is printed in bold block capitals across the upper portion, separated from the lower panel by a short horizontal rule. At left, the denomination "2 Pesetas" runs vertically, flanked by a double vertical rule; to the right, the legend "Bono Municipal" appears within a rectangular frame formed by double horizontal rules. A faint circular official stamp of the municipality is visible in the centre field. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Puertollano, a mining town in Ciudad Real province, issued local emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War when the Republic's central banking system collapsed and small change evaporated from circulation almost overnight. Municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives across Republican-held Spain filled the vacuum with their own paper — these issues are collectively known as billetes de necesidad, or necessity notes.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned here, suggesting this piece either hasn't been formally catalogued or remains disputed. That alone makes provenance documentation more important than usual.