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1 Peseta Boltaña
| Issuer | Boltaña, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 1'00 peseta |
| Reverse description | Plain card stock with irregular cut edges bearing a large oval municipal stamp in blue ink at centre, enclosing a heraldic coat of arms and encircled by the legend of the issuing municipality. The reverse is otherwise blank. |
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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.