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2 Pesetas Roses de Llobregat
| Issuer | Roses de Llobregat, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a circular vignette encloses a rose bloom, flanked by two children holding a cornucopia overflowing with roses; at right, an allegorical vignette of labour presents a bare-chested worker with a mallet, a cogwheel, and industrial factories in the background. Between the two vignettes, the course of the Llobregat river is rendered as a landscape divider. Denomination and municipal inscriptions in Catalan appear above and below the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 / DUES PTS. CONSELL MUNICIPAL de ROSES de LLOBREGAT DUES PESSETES L'IMPORT D'AQUESTA EMISSIÓ ESTÀ GARANTIT PELS RECURSOS MUNICIPALS I EL DIPÒSIT CORRESPONENT EFECTUAT A LA CAIXA DE DIPÒSITS I CONSIGNACIONS DE LA GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA. 20 DE MAIG DEL 1937 DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER A TOTA LA JURISDICCIÓ MUNICIPAL. ACORD DEL 12 DE MARÇ DEL 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Roses de Llobregat Two Pesetas The amount of this issue is guaranteed by municipal resources and the corresponding deposit made in the deposit and consignment treasury of the Generalitat de Catalunya. May 20, 1937 Mandatory course for the entire municipal jurisdiction. Agreement of March 12, 1937) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal notes — bitllets locals — issued during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican zone suffered acute small-change shortages after silver and copper coinage vanished from circulation almost immediately in 1936. The central government in Madrid and the Generalitat de Catalunya both struggled to fill the gap, so municipalities filled it themselves, often with whatever printing resources were locally available.
Roses de Llobregat, a small industrial town south of Barcelona, used the C.A.M. press — the same Barcelona cooperative printer responsible for dozens of other Catalan municipal issues in the series. Turró catalogues over 2,000 of these local issues; most were redeemed or destroyed within months of issue.