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1 Peseta Lanaja
| Issuer | Consejo Local de Defensa de Lanaja |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Local de Defensa 1 Pta. LANAJA (Translation: Local Defense Council 1 Peseta Lanaja) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock with no printed design elements, bearing a hand-applied violet rectangular rubber stamp identifying the issuing workers' collective and specifying the locality with its province in parentheses. |
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Lanaja is a small agricultural municipality in Huesca province, Aragon. This note was issued by its local defense council in the opening weeks of the Civil War, when the Republican zone fractured into hundreds of autonomous local economies, each improvising emergency scrip from whatever paper and printing resources were at hand. The nearly square format and card stock construction are a direct consequence of that improvisation — there was no printer's specification, only necessity.
Aragon's local war issues of 1936 are among the smallest-denomination emergency notes produced anywhere in twentieth-century Europe.