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25 Pesetas Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field printed in black letterpress with double horizontal rules forming a border at top and bottom, framing the central text block. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold typeface within the ruled area, with minimal linear ornamentation characteristic of wartime emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 255 |
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Lopera is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and this note is a product of the fractured monetary reality of Republican Spain during the Civil War. When the Nationalist advance disrupted normal banking and coin supply in 1936–37, hundreds of local Republican committees — many with no financial expertise whatsoever — issued their own emergency scrip. The Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera was one of them.
The official stamp is the only anti-counterfeiting measure, which tells you everything about the circumstances of production. These local emissions were often printed on whatever card or heavy paper was available, not purpose-made banknote stock.
Survival rates for Lopera issues are low — the town changed hands during the war, and scrip from the losing side had no redemption path.