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50 Céntimos Ojós
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Ojós |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRENTE POPULAR DE OJÓS CIRCULACIÓN LOCAL VALE por 50 céntimos (Translation: Popular Front of Ojós Local circulation Value for 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, showing only the aged plain paper stock with no printed design, text, or ornamentation, save for a hand-applied blue ink check mark visible in the upper right quadrant. |
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Ojós is a tiny municipality in the Ricote Valley of Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish villages during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. The Frente Popular — the local Popular Front committee that effectively became the governing authority — authorized these notes to keep small transactions moving. Production was almost certainly local, with the printing quality to match.
The Gari Mon reference places this within the vast corpus of Spanish Civil War municipal issues, a category where forgeries and fantasy items have occasionally surfaced. Provenance matters here.