Catalog
1 Peseta Baldellou
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa C.N.T. - F.A.I. Baldellou |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black on thick card stock, with the text arranged between two large decorative square borders at the top and bottom of the face. A rectangular stamp in the centre bears the name of the issuing authority, identifying the Local Defense Council of the anarchist organizations C.N.T. and F.A.I. in Baldellou, province of Huesca. |
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| 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.