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2 Pesetas Sástago
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sástago |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1337-D |
| Obverse description | The face is set within a geometric border composed of repeating dot-and-circle motifs. The Republican coat of arms of Spain appears in the upper left corner, with the full text of the municipal endorsement arranged in letterpress across the note field. The overall layout is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | SERIE B No (Translation: Series B / No.) |
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Sástago is a small municipality in Zaragoza province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government authorized local councils to produce small-denomination scrip to address the acute shortage of coin. These municipal issues were produced under improvised conditions — often by local printers with no banknote experience — and circulated only within the issuing town's boundaries.
Most saw very short effective circulation windows before being superseded, repudiated, or simply abandoned as the front lines shifted. Aragonese municipal notes from 1937 are particularly vulnerable to condition problems given the paper stock typically used.