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5 Pesetas Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas (5 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 5 ptas. Lopera (Jaén) (Translation: Popular Front Committee 5 Pesetas Lopera (Jaén)) |
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| Reverse lettering | Junta Económica Administrativa El Presidente PÉREZ JUNTA ECONOMICA ADMINISTRATIVA LOCAL - LOPERA (Jaén) |
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Lopera is a small municipality in Jaén province, and like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Spanish Civil War, its Frente Popular committee issued emergency local currency when the national supply collapsed and coin hoarding gutted day-to-day commerce. These municipal "billetes de necesidad" were produced locally — often on whatever paper or card stock was available — with no central oversight and wildly variable quality. The Lopera issue is among the humbler examples from Andalusia.
The Gari Montserrat corpus documented over a thousand such emissions; cataloguing them remains incomplete, and auction appearances are infrequent enough that accurate pricing is difficult to establish.