Catalog
5 Céntimos Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Coarse beige card stock with all text applied by rubber stamp or letterpress in black ink. The issuing authority 'Comité Popular Antifascista' runs across the upper margin, with 'FRAGA' in bold capitals at centre field; the denomination '5 cts.' is set in large type below, accompanied by a handwritten serial number prefixed 'N°'. The legend 'CURSO INTERIOR', denoting restricted local circulation, is stamped along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of coarse beige card stock, the natural fibrous grain and texture of the thick cardboard substrate left entirely exposed. A collector's paper label is affixed to the left portion, with faint handwritten ink traces visible at centre, consistent with a period annotation rather than an intentional design element. |
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Fraga is a small town in the province of Huesca, Aragon — and like hundreds of other Republican municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. The Comité Popular Antifascista administered local affairs under anarchist and left-Republican influence, and these tiny cardboard pieces filled the gap left by hoarded metal. The CNT-FAI controlled much of Aragon at the time, and local committee issues like this one operated largely outside the formal Republican monetary framework.
The thick card stock was a practical solution but also a durability problem — many examples from this series show corner softening and edge fraying from even light handling.