Catalog
1 Peseta Arjona
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Arjona |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Circular cardboard token with a thick border ring enclosing the field. The central denomination '1 pta.' is printed in bold black typeface within a rectangular frame formed by two horizontal rules above and below. The circular legend 'Comité del Frente Popular' runs along the upper periphery, while 'ARJONA (Jaén)' appears along the lower periphery, all in black ink on a plain cardboard ground. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Arjona's Frente Popular committee issued these cardboard emergency notes — technically catalogued as coins — during the acute metallic currency shortage that gripped Republican-held Andalusia in 1936–37. The Spanish Civil War disrupted coin supply chains catastrophically, and hundreds of municipalities resorted to locally produced substitutes in paper, cardboard, and even wood. Arjona, a small olive-producing town in Jaén province, was no exception.
The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these hyper-local issues, many of which survive in tiny numbers simply because they were pulled from circulation the moment regular currency returned.