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1 Peseta Albatárrech; Colectividad Adelante
| Issuer | Colectividad «Adelante» Albatárrech |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper with a bold rectangular black border enclosing the issuer name in letterpress, with «Adelante» set in guillemets and underlined by a horizontal rule. The denomination «VALE 1 pta.» is printed in large bold type in the lower half. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad «Adelante» Albatárrech VALE 1 pta. (Translation: Collectivity «Adelante» Voucher 1 Peseta) |
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Albatàrrec is a small municipality in Lleida, Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, it briefly assumed monetary authority by issuing its own emergency scrip. The collective "Adelante" — a CNT-aligned agricultural workers' organization — was among the thousands of anarcho-syndicalist bodies that filled the vacuum left when Republican Spain's small-denomination coinage disappeared into hoarding almost immediately after July 1936.
These hyper-local issues were never intended to travel far. Redemption was contingent on the collective's survival, which ended with the Nationalist advance through Catalonia in early 1939.