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0.50 Pesetas Ronda
| Issuer | Comité de Defensa de Ronda |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Vale por 0`50 ptas. El Comité de Defensa. (Translation: Voucher for 0.50 Pesetas The Defense Committee) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, with the plain cream-coloured paper stock visible without any text, vignette, or ornamental device. |
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Ronda issued its own fractional currency in the summer of 1936 because the Republic's small-change supply had effectively collapsed — hoarding of metal coins was near-universal within weeks of the July coup. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same, producing what collectors now call billetes locales or moneda de papel municipal. Ronda's Comité de Defensa was the locally constituted Republican authority that authorized the issue, one of several denominations printed to keep daily commerce moving.
The town's notoriety that autumn — Ronda witnessed some of the most documented political killings of the early war, later described by Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls — makes its ephemeral paper currency an accidental artifact of a very specific and violent moment.