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1 Peseta Baldellou

Issuer Consejo Local de Defensa C.N.T. - F.A.I. Baldellou
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse lettering Vale por 1`00 peseta CONSEJO LOCAL DE DEFENSA C.N.T. - F.A.I. BALDELLOU (HUESCA)
(Translation: Voucher for 1.00 Peseta Local Defense Council C.N.T. - F.A.I. Baldellou (Huesca))
Reverse description Reverse left plain and unprinted, consisting of bare thick card stock with a natural fibrous texture visible across the surface.
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Baldellou is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon — population in the hundreds — and like dozens of similarly tiny Republican-controlled villages during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper scrip when the collapse of normal supply chains made coin scarce and central government currency unreliable. The CNT-FAI designation places it firmly in the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization network that briefly dominated much of rural Aragon from 1936 onward.

The thick card construction was deliberate: locally produced scrip often used whatever stock was available, and heavier material resisted the wear of daily market exchange better than thin paper. The Garicano-Montaner reference gap suggests no catalogued example has been formally verified — genuine survivors from village-level issues this small are genuinely uncommon.

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