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2 Pesetas Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#671-F |
| Obverse description | Plain beige card stock with letterpress text in black ink. The issuing authority inscription 'Comité Popular Antifascista' appears across the top, with 'FRAGA' and the denomination '2 Ptas.' applied by rubber stamp in the centre field. The legend 'CURSO INTERIOR' is printed in capitals along the lower margin, indicating restricted local circulation. |
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| Reverse description | Plain beige card stock, largely blank. Two violet handwritten signatures or paraphs appear at the left and lower-right areas of the note, applied in ink as a rudimentary authentication measure in lieu of formal security features. |
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Fraga is a small town in Huesca province, Aragon — and like dozens of similar municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, its local antifascist committee issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These local scrip issues were a grassroots response to a real practical crisis: copper and bronze coins were hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936, leaving ordinary transactions impossible without substitutes.
The Comité Popular Antifascista designation marks this as an early-war issue, before the anarchist and socialist committees were consolidated or suppressed by the central Republican government in 1937. By that point, most local scrip had already been recalled or simply stopped circulating.