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100 Puntos Graus
| Issuer | Comité de Fuerzas Obreras de Graus |
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| Value | 100 Pesetas (100 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely letterpress-printed in orange-red on plain cream paper stock, the design consists of a concentric double-rule rectangular frame enclosing a central panel with the large numeral '100' above the denomination word 'PUNTOS' in capital letters. The issuer's name 'GRAUS' is set in bold capitals along the lower margin, while 'FUERZAS OBRERAS' runs horizontally across the top and 'COMITE' is printed vertically along the left border, together identifying the issuing authority. The composition is austere and typographic, without vignette or ornamental elements, consistent with improvised wartime emergency issue practice. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITE FUERZAS OBRERAS GRAUS 100 PUNTOS (Translation: Graus Workers Forces Committee 100 Puntos) |
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Graus is a small town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and during the Spanish Civil War its local workers' committee — the Comité de Fuerzas Obreras — issued fractional emergency currency like this to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation after July 1936. These tiny paper fractions, called "vales" or "cartones" depending on the locality, were a grassroots monetary improvisation replicated across hundreds of Republican-held towns simultaneously, with no central coordination.
At 37 × 30 mm, this is among the smallest paper issues of the entire Civil War emergency series. The Garicano Moré catalog reference (Mon#735-G) places it within a well-documented but genuinely rare group — Graus issues survive in far smaller numbers than those from larger Aragonese municipalities.