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2 Pesetas Sevilleja de la Jara
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Sevilleja de la Jara |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text in black letterpress. The issuer's name, CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / SEVILLEJA DE LA JARA (TOLEDO), is set in bold capitals across the upper portion, separated from the body text by a double rule. Below, the denomination is stated in words and numerals, with a handwritten serial number to the right. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, preceded by the printed role titles El Presidente and El Cajero. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black ink with a typographically composed decorative border of hatched geometric panels and diamond cornerpieces. Flanking the central cartouche are two symmetrical olive branches rising from a tied spray at the foot. Within a scalloped oval cartouche at centre, the numeral 2 appears above the legend PESETAS in capital letters. |
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Sevilleja de la Jara is a small municipality in the province of Toledo, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War years of 1936–1939, its municipal council issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These local vales and improvised notes were a nationwide phenomenon, produced without central authorization, often on whatever paper and printing equipment the town had available. Quality and survival rates vary enormously by locality.
Sevilleja's issues are among the lesser-documented in the Toledo provincial series. No large institutional archive appears to hold substantial quantities, which makes condition assessment on any surviving piece genuinely relevant.