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2 Pesetas Santa María del Campo Rus
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Santa María del Campo Rus |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed on a light blue ground with all text and border elements rendered in black ink. A geometric rectangular frame with stylized arrow-and-chevron corner ornaments encloses the entire face, with the issuer's name set in bold serif type along the upper register beneath a double rule. The denomination is stated twice within the central text block — once in letter-spaced roman type and once in large bold capitals at the lower centre — identifying this as a local exchange voucher. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream-coloured paper validated by a large oval municipal dry stamp applied in violet ink at centre, bearing a heraldic shield and the legend of the Consejo Municipal of Santa María del Campo Rus. A handwritten serial number in red ink appears to the left of the stamp, with a small secondary control stamp positioned to the right. |
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Santa María del Campo Rus is a small municipality in Cuenca province, Castilla-La Mancha, and like hundreds of Spanish townships it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War — specifically in response to the acute coin shortage that followed the Republican government's hoarding decrees of 1936–1937. These local emissions, collectively known as "billetes de necesidad," were produced by municipal councils with no formal banking infrastructure and often printed by whatever press was locally available.
The Gari Montané reference is incomplete here, which is not unusual — many Cuenca provincial emissions remain poorly catalogued, and unlisted examples surface occasionally from regional collections.