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1 Peseta Salas Altas

Issuer Colectividad de Campesinos de Salas Altas
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse description Plain light-green card stock with no pictorial vignette. The denomination is printed in blue letterpress in two lines at centre: the legend "VALE POR" above and "1'00 ptas." below in a larger typeface. The note has a perforated right edge.
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Reverse description Plain light-green card stock with a single applied oval collectivity stamp in blue-violet ink. The stamp carries the circular legend "COLECTIVIDAD DE CAMPESINOS" around the upper arc and "SALA SALTAS" along the lower arc, enclosing a plain inner oval, with small star ornaments flanking the lower text.
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Salas Altas is a tiny municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon — population measured in the hundreds even in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the anarchist collectivization of agriculture across republican Aragon produced hundreds of these hyper-local emergency currencies, issued by peasant collectives when coin vanished from circulation almost entirely after July 1936. The Consejo Regional de Defensa de Aragón briefly gave these issues a degree of quasi-official sanction, though legality was always contested by the central republican government in Valencia.

The Gari Mon reference places this firmly within the documented Aragonese series. Thick card stock was a practical choice — local printing resources were improvised, and heavier substrate helped these pieces survive repeated handling in a single village economy.

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