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1 Peseta Bujalance
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Bujalance (Municipality of Bujalance, Province of Córdoba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 1 Pta. BUJALANCE (Translation: Popular Front Committee 1 Peseta) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bujalance, a small olive-growing town in Córdoba province, fell under Republican control at the outbreak of the Civil War. Like dozens of Andalusian municipalities, its Frente Popular committee issued emergency cardboard currency in 1937 to address an acute coin shortage — silver and copper had been hoarded or requisitioned, and the Nationalist blockade of supply lines made restocking impossible. These local emissions, catalogued collectively as billetes de necesidad, were legal only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction.
The Gari Monerris reference remains the standard for this material. Survival rate for Bujalance issues is low; cardboard degraded quickly in circulation and few were preserved intentionally.