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0.50 Pesetas Lanaja
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa de Lanaja |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Local de Defensa 0`50 Ptas. LANAJA (Translation: Local Defense Council 0.50 Pesetas Lanaja) |
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| Reverse lettering | Colectividad Obrera - LANAJA (Huesca) (Translation: Worker Collectivity - Lanaja (Huesca)) |
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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.