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2 Pesetas Totana
| Issuer | Totana, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Totana pagará al portador, en billetes del Banco de España, la cantidad de 2 Pesetas Emisión 16 Mayo 1937. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Totana will pay the bearer, in banknotes of the Bank of Spain, the amount of 2 Pesetas Issue May 16, 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 Pts. (Translation: 2 Pesetas) |
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Totana is a small agricultural municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 when the Republican government's centralized currency supply broke down entirely. These local issues — known collectively as papel moneda local — were produced with whatever printing resources the town had available, typically a local press with no security printing capability whatsoever.
The Garrido Montón reference places this squarely within that Republican zone emergency corpus. Surviving examples frequently show heavy wear; these notes circulated hard in a small, economically stressed community before losing all validity at the war's end.