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2 Pesetas Ulea
| Issuer | Municipio de Ulea |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in violet ink on plain paper, enclosed within a bold rectangular border. The issuer name MUNICIPIO DE ULEA and the legend CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL appear in capital letters at the top, above the central denomination statement VALE por 2 pesetas in large type; the series letter and serial number are placed in the upper corners. A handwritten red ink signature of the Interventor occupies the centre field, with the guarantee clause GARANTIZADO CON BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA set in smaller capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie D Nº [serial number] MUNICIPIO DE ULEA CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL VALE por 2 pesetas EL INTERVENTOR GARANTIZADO CON BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA |
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Ulea is a village in the Ricote Valley, Murcia — population never large, administrative capacity always limited. Like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small change dried up after July 1936. These local emissions, broadly collected under the umbrella of "billetes locales," were produced under improvised conditions, often by local printers with no specialized security printing experience.
The Garrido Montón reference confirms this as a catalogued piece, but Ulea's emissions remain genuinely obscure. Surviving examples are rarely encountered outside regional Spanish collections.