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50 Céntimos Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#671-D |
| Obverse description | Plain beige card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer's name 'Comité Popular Antifascista' appears at the top in serif type, with 'FRAGA' in large bold capitals centred below. The denomination '50 cts.' is set in oversized bold type in the middle of the note, with a handwritten serial number on a dotted line beneath a printed 'Nº' indicator. The legend 'CURSO INTERIOR' appears at the foot in capital letters, denoting local circulation validity. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted beige card stock reverse bearing a faint circular validation stamp in blue-grey ink, partially legible, applied by hand. The surface shows the natural texture of the thick card material with no printed design elements. |
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Fraga is a small town in the province of Huesca, Aragon, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local committee issued its own emergency fractional currency after the July 1936 uprising disrupted the national coin supply. The Comité Popular Antifascista took direct control of this function — the political label on the issuer is unusually explicit even by the standards of Republican-zone local issues, most of which softened their nomenclature to "Consejo Municipal" or similar.
The Gari Monardes catalogue documents at least four varieties for Fraga's emissions, this being the fourth. Thick card stock was a common workaround when proper banknote paper was unavailable in inland towns cut off from Barcelona's printing infrastructure.