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1 Peseta Arjona
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Arjona |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#191-C |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 1 pta. ARJONA (Jaén) (Translation: Popular Front Committee 1 Peseta Arjona (Jaen)) |
| Reverse description | Plain cardboard reverse bearing an applied oval municipal stamp in violet ink. The stamp depicts the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic at center, surrounded by a circular legend reading 'EXCMO. AYUNTAMIENTO DE ARJONA' along the upper arc and 'INTERVENCION' along the lower arc. The impression is lightly struck and partially legible due to the absorbent cardboard substrate. |
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Arjona's Frente Popular committee issued these cardboard emergency notes — technically catalogued as coins — during the acute metallic currency shortage that gripped Republican-held Andalusia in 1936–37. The Spanish Civil War disrupted coin supply chains catastrophically, and hundreds of municipalities resorted to locally produced substitutes in paper, cardboard, and even wood. Arjona, a small olive-producing town in Jaén province, was no exception.
The Gari Monetary catalogue remains the primary reference for these hyper-local issues, many of which survive in tiny numbers simply because they were pulled from circulation the moment regular currency returned.