Catalog
5 Pesetas Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock reverse, bearing a large oval validation stamp applied in purple-violet ink at centre. The stamp contains a coat of arms vignette at its centre and carries a circular inscription reading 'GUARDIA CONSTITUCIONAL' around the border. |
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| Protection description | Large oval purple-violet ink stamp applied to the reverse, bearing a coat of arms and the inscription 'GUARDIA CONSTITUCIONAL', serving as a validation mark. |
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Fraga is a small town in Huesca province, Aragon, and like dozens of other Republican-held municipalities during the Civil War, its local antifascist committee took over economic administration in 1936 when the banking system effectively collapsed behind the front lines. These committee-issued notes — known collectively as "billetes de necesidad" or emergency money — were produced by whichever printing resources were locally available, which accounts for the heavy card stock. The CNT-dominated collectives in Aragon were particularly prolific issuers.
The Gari Monetary catalogue documents hundreds of such local emissions, and the Fraga series is among the less commonly encountered Aragonese examples.