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10 Céntimos Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité del Frente Popular 10 cts. Lopera (Jaén) (Translation: Popular Front Committee 10 Centimos Lopera (Jaén)) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Lopera is a small olive-growing municipality in Jaén province, and this note is a product of the chaotic first weeks of the Spanish Civil War, when hundreds of isolated Republican-held towns found themselves cut off from functioning monetary supply chains. The Comité del Frente Popular — a local Popular Front committee, not a formal banking authority — issued these céntimos simply because small change had vanished from circulation almost overnight, hoarded or physically trapped behind front lines.
The thick card stock and hand-applied stamp were the only authentication mechanism available to a village committee with no access to specialist printers. Lopera itself fell to Nationalist forces in late December 1936 after a battle notable for the death of the English writer Ralph Fox.