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2 Pesetas Ojós
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Ojós |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink, enclosed within a plain linear rectangular border. The crowned coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority text arranged in the central field in a straightforward typographic layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRENTE POPULAR DE OJÓS CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL VALE por DOS pesetas (Translation: Popular Front of Ojós Local circulation Value for Two Pesetas) |
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Ojós is a village in the Ricote Valley of Murcia — population in the 1930s was only a few hundred people. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican Popular Front committees of countless small municipalities issued their own emergency paper money, known as moneda local de guerra, when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. Ojós was among the smallest communities known to have done so.
The extreme rarity of surviving examples from villages this size is simply a function of the tiny print runs — often measured in the hundreds — combined with the post-war suppression of anything associated with Republican governance.