Catalog
50 Pesetas Fraga
| Issuer | Comité Popular Antifascista de Fraga |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#671-M |
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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. |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the natural cream-coloured fibrous paper stock with visible blue thread inclusions throughout. |
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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.