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50 Pesetas Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note printed entirely in black letterpress on fibrous paper with blue thread inclusions. The issuer name 'Comité Popular Antifascista -- Fraga' is set in bold uppercase across the upper central field, underlined by a ruled bar, with the large denomination '50 Ptas.' occupying the centre. An ideological legend runs along all four borders as a continuous perimeter inscription, with the lower portion printed inverted, and a serial number field ('Núm.') and the legend 'CURSO INTERIOR' appear in the lower left area. |
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| Obverse lettering | Moral - Trabajo - Producción y Economía son base de bienestar: Practícalas Camarada, en bien de la humanidad. Comité Popular Antifascista -- Fraga 50 Ptas. CURSO INTERIOR Núm. |
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Fraga is a small town in Huesca province, Aragon, and like dozens of other Republican-controlled municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, its local antifascist committee issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin and central bank notes dried up in the summer and autumn of 1936. These committee-issued pieces — broadly classed as "billetes locales" — filled a genuine transactional void; without them, daily commerce in markets and small shops would have stalled entirely.
Locally printed, almost certainly on whatever press was available, the production quality varies sharply across the Fraga series. The Gari Morancho census is the principal reference for Aragonese local issues, and even within that catalogue, survival rates for Fraga pieces remain low.