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2 Pesetas Ulea
| Issuer | Municipio de Ulea |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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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 |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse bearing a single blue-ink rubber stamp impression at centre, consisting of the municipal coat of arms of Ulea rendered as a quartered heraldic shield enclosed within a circular legend and surmounted by a crown, with a ribbon cartouche below; the remainder of the surface is otherwise blank. |
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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.