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0.50 Pesetas Boltaña
| Issuer | Boltaña, Municipality of |
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| Size | 70 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock with jagged perforated edges bearing typeset black letterpress text within an oval cartouche. The denomination inscription appears in two lines at centre, with a handwritten manuscript signature below in ink. A faint oval municipal control stamp is visible at left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 0`50 peseta (Translation: Voucher for 0.50 Peseta) |
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Boltaña is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change shortage became acute in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively known as *moneda local* or *papel moneda municipal* — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often printed by local print shops with no security features whatsoever.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: it held up better in daily market use than thin paper and was easier to source locally than proper banknote stock.