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1 Peseta Arjona
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Arjona |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 1 pta. ARJONA (Jaén) (Translation: Popular Front Committee 1 Peseta Arjona (Jaen)) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.