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2 Pesetas Villacarrillo
| Issuer | Villacarrillo, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typographically composed in black letterpress on plain buff paper, with the issuer designation centred as the principal legend and underlined for emphasis. The municipal coat of arms is positioned to the left of the denomination inscription, serving as the sole vignette element. No guilloche, underprint, or decorative border is present, reflecting the austere emergency production typical of Spanish Civil War municipal issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal VILLACARRILLO DOS PESETAS (Translation: Municipal Council Villacarrillo Two Pesetas) |
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Villacarrillo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and its locally issued peseta notes belong to the wave of emergency paper money produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War (1936–39). When the Nationalist uprising disrupted coin supply and central banking functions simultaneously, hundreds of towns issued their own fractional and low-denomination notes simply to keep local commerce moving. Villacarrillo's 2 Pesetas note is a product of that improvised necessity.
These municipal emissions were authorized under Republican decree but produced with whatever printing resources were locally available — quality varied enormously, and many survive only in small numbers because the notes had no value once the war ended in the issuing town's area.