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5 Centimos Blasco Ibañez
| Issuer | Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | PLUS ULTRA |
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By 1938, the Republican government's metal supplies were so depleted by the Civil War that the FNMT resorted to issuing cardboard fractional currency — an almost unthinkable concession for a national mint. This piece was part of a series honoring figures of the Spanish left, with the novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez selected presumably for his fierce anti-monarchist politics and international profile, though he had died in French exile a decade earlier, in 1928. The dual Miró references reflect documented varieties in the series, likely differing in reverse printing or cardboard stock.