Catalog
1 Peseta Boltaña
| Issuer | Boltaña, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock with irregular cut edges bearing a simple letterpress inscription in two lines within an oval handwritten signature below. The note is entirely unadorned, relying solely on the manuscript signature for authentication. |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 1'00 peseta |
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Boltaña is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency paper during the Civil War when the Republic's central coinage supply collapsed almost immediately after July 1936. These municipal fractional notes — known collectively as moneda local or papel moneda — were produced under desperate conditions, often on whatever card stock or heavy paper was available, sometimes printed with a hand stamp or basic typography rather than any professional press.
Survival rates vary enormously by town. Boltaña's issues are among the lesser-documented of the Aragonese series.