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5 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 border rules at top and bottom enclosing simple linear ornamental strips. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold block lettering across the centre, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint. |
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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.