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2 Pesetas Ojós
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Ojós (Municipality of Ojós, Province of Murcia) |
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| Size | 98 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink with a plain ruled rectangular border. The crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Republic appears as a vignette to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in block capitals across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper reverse, largely unprinted, with a faint red ruled border line visible at top and bottom edges and a partial blue ink stamp mark to the right of centre. |
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Ojós is one of the smallest municipalities in Murcia — a village of a few hundred inhabitants in the Ricote Valley — and yet during the Spanish Civil War it issued its own emergency paper currency like dozens of other Republican-controlled localities caught without adequate coinage after 1936. The Frente Popular designation marks this firmly within the Republican administration's chaotic decentralized response to the metallic coin shortage, where local committees, trade unions, and municipal councils improvised their own scrip with whatever printing resources were at hand.
Village-level emissions from this region are among the most ephemeral objects the war produced. Print runs were tiny, redemption was rarely enforced, and most notes were simply discarded when the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.