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2 Pesetas Tomelloso
| Issuer | Tomelloso, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light green underprint with violet letterpress text and a ruled perimeter frame. At left, the denomination numeral 2 is set apart within the layout, while the central vignette presents a soldier holding a rifle in one hand and a sickle in the other. The full authorizing text of the Municipal Council of Tomelloso is typeset across the face, recording the session date of July 9, 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Violet letterpress text within a ruled perimeter frame surrounds a central vignette of the crowned local coat of arms, flanked symmetrically by two ears of wheat and two bunches of grapes. The denomination in figures and letters together with the expiry date of 31 December 1937 are incorporated into the surrounding typeset text, identifying the note as an emission of the Spanish Republic. |
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Tomelloso, a wine-producing town in Ciudad Real province, was one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coinage. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes de necesidad* phenomenon — were authorised by municipal councils operating under varying degrees of anarchist, socialist, or Republican committee control depending on the locality.
Gari Mon #1429-G places this firmly within the documented Tomelloso issues, though survivor populations are thin and condition tends to run poor given the rough handling these utilitarian pieces received in daily market transactions.