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2 Pesetas Sax
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sax |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note on cream paper, with a uniform dotted guilloche underprint covering the entire field and a border of small repeating square geometric motifs. The denomination numeral '2' and the issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SAX' appear vertically along the left margin, with the year '1937' at the lower left; the series designation and serial number are printed in the upper left area. The large face-value legend 'DOS PESETAS' is set in bold green type at centre, above the manuscript signature of the Alcalde accompanied by an official circular ink stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 Ptas. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL SAX 1937 SERIE C Emisión Papel · Moneda de curso obligatorio en la localidad DOS PESETAS EL ALCALDE (Translation: 2 Pesetas Municipal Council Sax 1937 Series C Paper Money issuance of compulsory legal tender in the locality Two Pesetas The Mayor) |
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Sax is a small municipality in the province of Alicante, and like dozens of Valencian towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of the Republic's small-change supply in 1936–37. These emergency municipal notes — known collectively as billetes locales — were authorized under decrees that gave town councils discretionary power to print what they needed, with predictably anarchic results for standardization.
Industrias Gráficas Orín, based in the nearby shoe-industry town of Elda, printed for several surrounding municipalities during this period. The proximity of printer to issuer kept costs manageable for councils with no real banking infrastructure behind them.