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1 Peseta Bolaños
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Bolaños |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress with no vignette or ornamental elements. The issuer name is set in two lines separated by a ruled underline, with the denomination text centred below and a handstamped violet circular seal applied across the middle of the note. A serial number appears at lower right and the issue date at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BOLAÑOS Vale por 1 peseta Agosto 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Bolaños Valid for 1 Peseta August 1937.) |
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Bolaños de Calatrava is a small municipality in Ciudad Real province, and this note is a product of the anarchic monetary improvisation that swept Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War. With the peseta coinage hoarded or simply absent from circulation by 1937, hundreds of municipal councils — many with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — issued their own emergency paper. The Consejo Municipal simply filled the void.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: conventional banknote paper was unavailable to most local bodies. These municipally-issued pieces were typically only honored within the issuing town, which is precisely why so few circulated far enough to survive in quantity.