Catalog
2 Pesetas Boltaña
| Issuer | Boltaña, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink card stock with perforated edges on all four sides, printed in black letterpress with the voucher inscription centered in the upper portion. A single handwritten signature in ink occupies the lower half of the face, executed in a broad, looping cursive style. The note has no vignette or ornamental underprint, relying entirely on the manuscript authorization for its validity. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Boltaña is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and this 2 pesetas note belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally-issued emergency scrip that swept across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War. When the central government could no longer guarantee coin supply and hoarding stripped small denominations from daily commerce, hundreds of municipalities printed their own. Boltaña was among the smaller communities to do so — its issues are correspondingly scarce, produced in limited quantities for a limited catchment area.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication mechanism, a practical necessity when printing infrastructure was rudimentary.