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1 Peseta Alloza
| Issuer | Colectividad de Alloza |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in deep reddish-brown on cream paper by letterpress, the obverse is framed by a border of interlocking guilloche rosettes and woven basketwork underprint panels at left and right. The issuer name "COLECTIVIDAD DE" appears in bold block capitals at the top, while a central oval cartouche with a fine lathe-work background carries the denomination legend "VALE POR 1 PESETA" in two lines. At the base, a ribbon scroll in the same dark tone bears the locality name "ALLOZA" in large display lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in deep reddish-brown on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a plain diagonally-lined underprint filling a central rectangular panel framed by a simple ruled border. The issuer name "COLECTIVIDAD DE" curves in bold block capitals across the upper portion of the panel, while a wide solid band at the foot carries the locality name "ALLOZA" in large open-face letters. Guilloche rosette ornaments occupy the lower corners, echoing the border treatment of the obverse. |
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Alloza is a small municipality in Teruel, Aragon — one of hundreds of Republican-held towns that issued its own emergency paper scrip during the Spanish Civil War after the 1936 military uprising severed normal banking channels. These colectividad notes were produced and managed by local anarcho-syndicalist collectives, which effectively took over agricultural and commercial operations in the absence of functioning state authority.
The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the specialized corpus of Spanish Civil War local issues, a field where provenance and survival rates are erratic — many of these notes were printed in tiny quantities and used for only a matter of months before the fronts shifted.