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2 Pesetas Samper de Calanda
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Samper de Calanda |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress composition on plain paper, with a geometric guilloche border framing the entire face. The emblem of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon appears to the left, while the issuer name, denomination, and mandatory circulation legend are arranged in multi-line text across the central field. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SAMPER DE CALANDA 2 PESETAS TIP. C.A.M. EMP. COL. C.N.T. CASANOVA 55-57 BARCELONA (Translation: Municipal Council Samper de Calanda 2 Pesetas) |
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Samper de Calanda is a small municipality in Teruel province, Aragon — Republican-held territory during much of the Civil War, though the front lines shifted brutally through the region in 1937 and 1938. Like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's chronic coin shortage made small transactions nearly impossible. The Consell Municipal turned to the C.A.M. press in Barcelona, which handled an enormous volume of these local emergency issues.
Teruel province saw some of the war's most punishing fighting; many municipalities that issued notes in 1937 were under Nationalist control within a year, and their paper currency became worthless almost immediately after issue.