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2 Pesetas Ugíjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Ugíjar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note on unadorned paper, with the municipal emblem of Ugíjar — a tower surmounted by two stars — positioned in the upper left corner. The text is set in black typeface across the body of the note, stating the issuing authority, the promise to pay, and the denomination. The date of issue, 10 October 1937, and the value of 2 pesetas appear in the lower portion of the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE UGÍJAR abonará al portador DOS pesetas Ugíjar 10 Octubre de 1937. Vale 2 ptas. (Translation: Municipal Council of Ugíjar will pay the bearer Two Pesetas Ugíjar October 10, 1937. It's worth 2 Pesetas) |
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Ugíjar is a small municipality in the Alpujarra region of Granada province, and its wartime scrip was issued during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican zone faced acute small-change shortages. The central government's inability to keep low-denomination coinage in circulation forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many of them tiny — to print their own emergency paper. Ugíjar was one of them.
The Gari Montllor catalogue documents this as issue D within the Ugíjar series, implying at least four distinct emissions from the same council — unusual volume for a town of this size.