Catalog
1 Peseta Almunia de Cinca
| Issuer | Colectividad de Almunia de Cinca |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black letterpress on a green-tinted underprint, with a geometric border framing the entire face. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold block lettering, while a supplementary inscription in smaller type states the mandatory circulation obligation for members of the collectivity. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD DE ALMUNIA DE CINCA 1 peseta / UNA PESETA Circulación obligatoria para los socios de dicha colectividad. Almunia de Cinca (Translation: Collectivity of Almunia de Cinca 1 Peseta / One Peseta Mandatory circulation for members of said Collectivity. Almunia de Cinca) |
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Almunia de Cinca is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon, and like dozens of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own local emergency currency when the Republic's banking system effectively disintegrated after July 1936. The Colectividad designation matters: this was not issued by a municipal council but by a collectivized economic unit — almost certainly under anarcho-syndicalist CNT organization, which was dominant across rural Aragon during this period.
These hyper-local issues were redeemable only within the issuing community and had no validity elsewhere, which is precisely why so many survived — outsiders couldn't spend them and often simply kept them.