Catalog
0.50 Pesetas Cap de Saso
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera Cap de Saso |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note in black ink on off-white paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuer name appears in two lines at the top, separated from the denomination block below by a dotted rule; the value is rendered in large bold type with a handwritten serial number to its right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows a mirror bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress printing, with no independent design or text intentionally applied; the double-rule border frame is faintly visible as an offset transfer on the plain paper stock. |
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Cap de Saso was a small agricultural cooperative in the Zaragoza province of Aragon, and like dozens of similar bodies during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation after July 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply pushed the burden onto municipalities, unions, and cooperatives, many of which printed notes with minimal technical resources and no banking authority whatsoever.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the Aragonese local emission corpus — a notoriously difficult series to attribute with precision, as many issuers produced only a single denomination in a single run.