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.
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.