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2 Reales Santafé
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Santafé (Municipality of Santafé) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | DOS AYUNTAMIENTO DE SANTAFÉ Nº EL PORTADOR, depositó en la CAJA municipal, DOS Reales. (Almería) y Julio 1937. EL ALCALDE, EL SECRETARIO Antonio Marin, Juan Ruíz. Reales |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, left unprinted, consistent with the simple emergency issue character of Spanish Civil War municipal vales produced in the province of Almería in 1937. |
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Santafé is a small municipality in the Vega de Granada, best known historically as the site where the Catholic Monarchs signed the capitulations with Columbus in 1492. By 1937, with the peseta system in crisis and coin hoarding endemic across Republican-held Andalusia, the ayuntamiento was forced to produce its own fractional paper — one of hundreds of Spanish municipalities that resorted to emergency local scrip during the Civil War. These municipal issues were purely stopgap instruments, valid only within the issuing locality and often printed by whatever press was available in town.
The Gari Mon reference is unassigned, suggesting this note either escaped systematic cataloguing or survives in very few documented examples.