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2 Pesetas Villacarrillo
| Issuer | Villacarrillo, Municipality of |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design in black letterpress on unadorned paper, with the municipal coat of arms of Villacarrillo positioned to the left. The issuer name appears underlined as the principal legend, accompanied by the denomination in large type. The overall composition is characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era emergency local currency, produced with minimal graphic embellishment. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, with no printed text, vignettes, or decorative elements, consistent with the expedient production methods typical of Spanish municipal emergency issues of the 1936–1939 period. |
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Villacarrillo is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued paper during the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. These municipal emergency notes — often printed by local printers with minimal security features — filled the gap left by hoarded and melted metal. The Gari Mon reference being incomplete suggests this piece has not been fully catalogued in the standard Spanish Civil War local issues literature, which itself points to rarity or ambiguity in known examples.