Catalog
0.25 Pesetas Boltaña
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Boltaña |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BOLTAÑA 0`25 PTAS. Emisión aprobada en sesión celebrada el 16 de Mayo 1.937 El Secretario, Enrique Puyuelo El Presidente, Marín Gazo Estos billetes son de curso legal en este término Municipal. (Translation: Municipal Council of Boltaña 0.25 Pesetas Issue approved in session held on May 16, 1937 The Secretary, Enrique Puyuelo The President, Marín Gazo These banknotes are legal tender in this Municipal term.) |
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| Signature(s) | Enrique Puyuelo and Marín Gazo |
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Boltaña is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and its wartime scrip belongs to a vast category of emergency local currency — cartones and billetes de necesidad — issued across Republican-held Spain when the Civil War shattered the normal coin supply. Hoarding of metal coinage was near-universal by 1937, and hundreds of town councils filled the gap with whatever printing resources they had locally. The Consejo Municipal did what it could.
Two signatories, an official stamp — that was the authentication apparatus for a fractional note circulating in a mountain town during wartime. Gari Mon catalogues this as #351-A, implying at least one variant exists in the series.