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2 Pesetas Tàrrega
| Issuer | Tàrrega, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Beige note printed in brown letterpress, with a rectangular dotted border framing the entire face. The issuing authority "AJUNTAMENT DE TÀRREGA" is inscribed across the top, flanked on each side by the numeral "2". Below, the legend "CERTIFICAT DE PLATA" appears above the large-format denomination text "DUES PESSETES", with the compulsory circulation clause "D'ÚS FORÇOS SOLAMENT A TÀRREGA" beneath. The serial number prefixed "No" appears at lower left, with the date "FEBRER DEL 1937" at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | ADVERTIMENT Aquest paper-moneda és transitori i l'Ajuntament garanteix el seu import. (Translation: Warning This paper money is transitory and the City Council guarantees its amount.) |
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Tàrrega is a small agricultural town in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible. The Republican government's failure to maintain adequate fractional coinage in circulation forced local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to fill the gap themselves — often printing notes on whatever press was available locally.
Crònica Targarina was the town's own newspaper press, which tells you something about the improvised nature of this entire monetary episode. The note's legitimacy lasted only as long as the Republic held the region.