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1 Peseta Alcubierre
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Alcubierre |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green letterpress on cream paper, the face of this typographic emergency note carries the issuer name COOPERATIVA DE ALCUBIERRE in large serif capitals occupying the upper register, with the denomination UNA PTA. set below in an ornate display typeface interspersed with floral and foliate ornaments. The entire composition is enclosed within a decorative interlaced border of chain and ribbon elements running along all four edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA DE ALCUBIERRE UNA PTA. (Translation: Cooperative of Alcubierre / One Peseta) |
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Alcubierre is a small municipality in the Monegros desert region of Aragón, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency scrip when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed and small change simply ceased to circulate. These local vales — often produced by cooperatives, municipalities, or worker collectives — were strictly for internal use, accepted only within the issuing community and worthless the moment you crossed the next village boundary.
The Cooperativa de Alcubierre issue is catalogued under Gari's regional classification, which remains the primary reference for Aragonese Civil War scrip. Survival rates for these pieces are low; most were redeemed, discarded, or destroyed after 1939 when their issuing bodies were dissolved by the Franco regime.