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2 Pesetas Estopiñán
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Estopiñán |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE ESTOPIÑÁN LA TESORERÍA DE ESTE AYUNTAMIENTO RECONOCE A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA CANTIDAD DE DOS PESETAS En virtud de acuerdo de este Consejo de fecha 31 de Octubre 1937. ESTOPIÑÁN, 1º NOVIEMBRE 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Estopiñán The Treasury of this Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Two Pesetas By virtue of the agreement of this Council dated October 31, 1937. Estopiñán, November 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | BILLETE DE CURSO OBLIGATORIO EN ESTE TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL (Translation: Mandatory currency note within this Municipal Term) |
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Estopiñán — a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia — issued emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War under the same authority that governed much of local Republican-controlled Spain after the July 1936 uprising disrupted the national banking system. These consell municipal notes filled a genuine void: coins had vanished from circulation almost immediately, hoarded or melted, and the central government could not supply small denominations fast enough to keep local commerce functional.
Litografia Lafont i Miralles in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these Catalan municipal emissions throughout 1936–37, which is why the printing quality here exceeds what one might expect from a village of a few hundred inhabitants.