Catalog
1 Peseta Azanuy
| Issuer | Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra U.G.T., Azanuy |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra U. G. T. AZANUY VALE, UNA PESETA El Presidente, El Depositario, (Translation: Society of Land Workers U.G.T. / Azanuy / Voucher, One Peseta / The President, / The Depositary,) |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain white paper, showing natural aging, foxing, and fold lines consistent with circulation use. |
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Azanuy is a village in Aragon with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s, which makes any surviving note from its local union enormously scarce. The Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra — a landworkers' section affiliated with the socialist UGT federation — issued emergency paper during the Spanish Civil War when coinage effectively disappeared from rural circulation, hoarded or melted as the Republican economy fractured. These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper was available, with no central oversight.
Collector attrition has been severe. Many village issues from Aragon were never formally catalogued during their brief circulation window.