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2 Pesetas Seròs
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Serós |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency voucher on cream-coloured thick card stock, printed in dark blue-black ink. The issuer inscription CONSEJO MUNICIPAL appears at the top in bold capitals, separated from the central denomination legend Vale por 2 ptas. by a double horizontal rule; a serial number is printed vertically along the left margin. At the foot, the municipality name SERÓS is centred between two pairs of decorative filled-circle and triangle ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream card stock reverse, bearing traces of a faint manuscript municipal control stamp in blue ink, with additional handwritten notations in pencil and ink added post-issuance. |
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Serós is a small municipality in Lleida, Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even today. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own emergency paper scrip when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down as the conflict deepened. This note is one of those issues, authorized under the wartime local currency framework that briefly gave municipal councils the legal cover to print their own fractional money.
Turró catalogues this as a distinct type, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce — the print runs from councils this small were limited, and most scrip was recalled or simply discarded once the Republican monetary situation collapsed after 1938.