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1 Peseta Ojós
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Ojós (Popular Front of Ojós) |
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| Size | 98 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on plain paper, enclosed within a simple linear rectangular border. The crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears as a vignette to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority set in letterpress text across the face. The composition is unadorned and utilitarian, consistent with locally produced Civil War-era emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, consisting of unprinted aged paper with no typeset text, vignettes, or decorative elements. A partial blue ink stroke is visible toward the upper right, likely a validation or cancellation mark applied in circulation. |
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Ojós is a village in the Ricote Valley of Murcia with a population that barely reached 600 in the 1930s. That the Frente Popular issued its own local emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War is not unusual — hundreds of municipalities did the same after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national coin supply — but a note from a settlement this small is genuinely uncommon. Most have disappeared entirely.
The Ricote Valley remained under Republican control until the very end of the war. Notes from this pocket of Murcia had an unusually long potential circulation window, though actual survival rates suggest they were treated as disposable scrip from the start.