2 Pesetas Puertollano

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.