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0.05 Pesetas Boltaña
| Issuer | Boltaña, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Issued on yellowish thick card stock with a perforated border on all sides, the obverse bears centrally placed letterpress text in two lines reading the denomination value. A partial violet oval municipal stamp is visible along the right edge, partially overlapping the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellowish card stock with a violet oval municipal stamp applied to the left-centre of the reverse, bearing partial legible text of the issuing municipality around its circumference; the remainder of the surface is unprinted. |
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Boltaña is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally produced small-denomination paper during the Civil War when Republican authorities struggled to maintain an adequate supply of fractional coinage. These emergency emissions — known as "moneda local" — were often printed or hand-stamped by the town council itself, on whatever card stock was available. The Gari Montero catalogue documents the bewildering proliferation of such issues, and Boltaña's 5-céntimo piece is among the more obscure provincial entries.
Survival is partly a function of how long the issuing town remained behind Republican lines.