Catalog
0.30 Pesetas Benabarre
| Issuer | Colectividad de Benabarre (C.N.T. - A.I.T.) |
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| Size | 62 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in black ink on cream-coloured thick card stock. The issuer name 'Colectividad de Benabarre' and anarcho-syndicalist affiliation 'C.N.T. - A.I.T.' appear at the top, with the denomination '0'30 ptas.' in large bold numerals at centre. The inscriptions 'EL COMITÉ' and 'VALOR INTERIOR' are printed at the lower portion, and a handwritten serial number is visible at the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock bearing a large oval blue ink validation stamp, partially legible, reading 'COMITÉ ADMINISTRATIVO DE LA COLECTIVIDAD' with a central vignette of crossed implements, applied as an authenticating seal over the otherwise unprinted surface. |
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Benabarre is a small town in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca, Aragon — deep in the territory that fell under anarchist administration during the Spanish Civil War. The Colectividad issued fractional notes because Republican-zone coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1936–37, hoarded or melted, leaving small transactions impossible. The CNT-affiliated collectives across Aragon plugged the gap with locally printed scrip, validated by stamp to distinguish authorized issues from forgeries and unauthorized duplicates.
The 0.30 peseta denomination is unusual — most emergency fractional scrip clustered around 0.25, 0.50, and 1 peseta. Someone in Benabarre's collective management did the arithmetic differently.