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1 Peseta Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 1 pta. Lopera (Jaén) (Translation: Popular Front Committee 1 Peseta Lopera (Jaén)) |
| Reverse description | Essentially uninscribed reverse on coarse cream-coloured card stock, bearing faint impressions of a partial circular stamp in violet ink bleeding through from handling, along with a handwritten notation in ink at centre-right, likely a control or serial number added in manuscript. |
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Lopera is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalucía. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican side faced a catastrophic shortage of small change almost immediately after July 1936 — the hoarding of coins and the disruption of the banking system left local economies functionally paralyzed. Municipalities, trade unions, and front committees across Republican territory responded by printing their own emergency scrip, and the Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera was among hundreds that did so.
The thick card stock construction is characteristic of hasty local production with whatever materials were at hand. Gari Mon#826-B suggests a variant within the Lopera series — likely a color, paper, or overprint distinction from the primary type catalogued as 826-A.