Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
0.50 Pesetas Lanaja
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa de Lanaja |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Consejo Local de Defensa 0`50 Ptas. LANAJA (Translation: Local Defense Council 0.50 Pesetas Lanaja) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, otherwise blank, bearing a lightly applied rectangular violet collectivity stamp centred on the field. The stamp impression, somewhat uneven in inking, carries the legend of the Lanaja Workers Collectivity and serves as the sole authenticating mark on this side. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Lanaja is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting hundreds of local councils — many of them tiny — to issue their own emergency paper currency under varying degrees of legal cover. The Consejo Local de Defensa designation marks this as a wartime administrative body, not a peacetime municipal authority.
At 36 × 35 millimeters, this is among the smallest paper emergency issues of the conflict. The near-square format was almost certainly dictated by available card stock rather than any design decision.