Catalog
1 Peseta Benabarre
| Issuer | Colectividad de Benabarre (C.N.T. - A.I.T.) |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Colectividad de Benabarre' and anarcho-syndicalist affiliation 'C.N.T. - A.I.T.' appear at the top, above a large bold numeral '1' and the denomination abbreviation 'pta.' A vertical dotted rule on the right side frames a sideways serial number. The lower portion carries the authority inscription 'EL COMITÉ' and the validity clause 'VALOR INTERIOR' in block capitals. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of cream-toned coarse card stock, showing the natural fibrous texture of the material with no inscriptions, vignettes, or other printed elements. |
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Benabarre is a small town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like dozens of similar municipalities it issued its own emergency scrip after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national money supply. The CNT-FAI collective that ran the town during the early revolutionary period controlled both labour and local commerce, and these notes functioned as internal currency within that closed economy — accepted at collective-run shops and services, useless outside the immediate area.
Local production on card stock rather than banknote paper was the norm for this type. The rough dimensions reflect a hand-cut or guillotined sheet, not a precision press run.