1 Peseta Arjona

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.