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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 lettering | Consejo Municipal VILLACARRILLO DOS PESETAS (Translation: Municipal Council Villacarrillo Two Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted verso on warm buff-toned paper, bearing a single handwritten ink signature with an extended flourish underline applied in violet ink as the sole authenticating element. No text, vignette, or ornamental devices are present, consistent with the minimal production standards of Spanish Civil War emergency currency. |
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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.