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2 Pesetas Bobera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bobera (Municipality of Bovera) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL de 2 pessetes AJUNTAMENT DE BOBERA VAL de DUES pessetes de circulació obligatòria dintre de la població, garantit per la Corporació Municipal Bobera, 25 de febrer del 1937. (Translation: Voucher of 2 Pesetas City Council of Bobera Voucher of Two Pesetas of mandatory circulation in the town, guaranteed by the Municipal Corporation. Bobera, February 25, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDÍA DE BOBERA (Translation: Mayoralty of Bobera) |
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Bovera is a tiny municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia — its 1937 population was well under two hundred people. During the Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, no matter how small, issued their own emergency paper currency under a framework loosely tolerated by the Generalitat. This note is one of those locally authorized pieces, produced with whatever printing resources the village could access.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such municipal emissions from Catalonia alone. The sheer volume of issuers means individual pieces from minor villages like Bovera survive in tiny quantities — not because they circulated heavily, but because almost no one thought to save them.