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1 Peseta Naval
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre C.N.T.-F.A.I. de Naval |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black and red letterpress design with a geometric perimeter frame enclosing a central vignette of a potter at a wheel. Anarcho-syndicalist collective inscriptions appear in bold typeface across the upper and lower registers, with the denomination and issuing locality noted in the central field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Libre C.N.T F.A.I. VALE 1 PESETA NAVAL (HUESCA) (Translation: Free Collectivity C.N.T F.A.I. Voucher 1 Peseta Naval (Huesca)) |
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Naval is a small municipality in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like dozens of anarchist-controlled communities across Republican Spain in 1936–37, it issued its own local currency after the CNT-FAI effectively assumed administrative control following the military uprising. These municipally-issued vouchers — technically exchange certificates rather than banknotes — circulated as substitutes for coin, which had been hoarded or simply vanished from the rural economy within weeks of the coup.
Gráficas Bobés, a Barcelona commercial printer, produced scrip for numerous collectivized communities during this period, which accounts for a certain family resemblance across issues from otherwise unrelated Aragonese villages.