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50 Centimos Arjona
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Arjona (Popular Front Committee of Arjona) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain round cardboard disc bearing a circular border enclosing the denomination '50 Cts.' in large bold numerals at center, flanked above and below by two horizontal parallel rules. The circular legend along the upper periphery reads 'Comité del Frente Popular' and the lower periphery bears 'ARJONA (Jaén)', all lettered in Latin script. The overall typeset design is utilitarian in character, consistent with the emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Arjona is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local Popular Front committee issued emergency cardboard vouchers when metallic coin and Republican paper currency alike disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, collectively called moneda local or cartones, were never legal tender beyond the issuing town and were typically redeemable only at specific local cooperatives or supply committees.
The Gari reference distinguishes two varieties for this emission; this is the B type.