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25 Céntimos Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note with black letterpress typography. A double horizontal rule frames the top and bottom edges, with simple linear border ornaments. The denomination and issuing authority are set in a straightforward typographic layout, typical of wartime emergency municipal issues. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears a large circular violet rubber stamp impression with inscriptions around the perimeter reading "COMITE LOCAL" and related municipal authority text, with a handwritten numeral and countersignature visible at centre, applied as a validation mark on the plain card stock. |
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Lopera is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia — and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage by 1936–37. Republican-controlled local committees filled the gap by issuing their own emergency paper, sanctioned loosely by Republican monetary decrees that permitted local Frente Popular committees to produce fractional currency backed by nothing more than local authority.
The Gari Mon#826-A designation places this among the rarer municipally-issued Andalusian pieces, with survival rates for Lopera emissions particularly low — the town changed hands during the war, and much of what circulated was either destroyed or simply discarded once central Republican scrip superseded local issues.