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5 Céntimos Lopera
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuing authority "Comité del Frente Popular" is set in two lines at the top, separated from the large central denomination numeral "5 cts." by a double horizontal rule; a second double horizontal rule below the denomination divides it from the locality inscription "Lopera (Jaen)" at the foot. The design is entirely typographic with no vignette or decorative elements. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock, otherwise unprinted, bearing a violet handstamp applied diagonally at centre-right with a serial number, and a second partial violet oval or circular control stamp along the left edge, both applied in manuscript-style rubber stamp ink. |
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Lopera is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican side's economic disruption — particularly the hoarding and disappearance of metal coinage — forced hundreds of local committees across Spain to produce their own emergency fractional currency. The Comité del Frente Popular de Lopera was one of thousands of such bodies that stepped into the vacuum, issuing small-denomination notes on whatever stock was available locally.
The thick card construction is characteristic of these Andalusian municipals, where printing infrastructure was limited and cardboard or heavy stock substituted for proper banknote paper. Genuinely ephemeral objects — most were pulled from circulation and replaced within months as the war front shifted.