2 Pesetas Bobera

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.