Catalog
1 Peseta Fraga
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Fraga |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress on beige card stock, entirely textual in layout. The issuing authority "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE FRAGA" is printed in bold uppercase letters across the top, with the denomination "Una peseta" in large bold type at centre. A handwritten serial number preceded by "Núm." appears on a dotted line in the lower central area, with the validity inscription "CURSO INTERIOR" in uppercase along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of beige card stock, showing natural aging, foxing, and ink bleed-through from the obverse impression. No text, vignette, or design elements are present. |
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Fraga is a small town in the province of Huesca, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper scrip during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. These local emissions — collectively known as "billetes de necesidad" — were produced under wildly varying conditions, from simple rubber-stamped card to reasonably printed paper, and Fraga's issues fall toward the more rudimentary end.
The Gari Montserrat catalogue remains the primary reference for Aragonese municipal issues, and the #671 series documents Fraga's surviving types. Thick card stock was a practical choice when proper banknote paper was unavailable.