Catalog
1 Peseta Alcubierre
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Alcubierre |
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| Size | 75 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the face of this Civil War-era emergency note is enclosed within a letterpress-printed border of interlaced chain-link ornamental rule, with decorative knotted corner pieces. The issuer's name appears in two lines of bold sans-serif lettering at centre, above a guilloche-effect rectangular panel carrying the denomination UNA PESETA in large capital letters. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise plain, bearing only a partially legible circular violet dry-stamp applied to the upper-left area, likely an official validation seal of the issuing cooperative or municipal authority. |
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Alcubierre is a small municipality in the Monegros desert region of Aragon, and during the Spanish Civil War it sat directly on the Aragon front — George Orwell famously spent months in the trenches nearby, describing the area in detail in Homage to Catalonia. Like dozens of Aragonese villages, Alcubierre suffered an acute coin shortage after 1936 as metal was hoarded or requisitioned, forcing local institutions to issue their own emergency paper. This note is one of those stopgap emissions.
The issuer here is the town cooperative rather than the municipality itself — a meaningful distinction in Republican Aragon, where anarcho-syndicalist collectives frequently controlled local economic life independently of the formal ayuntamiento.