1 Unidad Binéfar

Binéfar is a small agricultural town in the Huesca province of Aragon, and in the summer of 1936, following the anarchist-led collectivization that swept through the region after the military uprising, the local CNT-FAI workers' collective effectively abolished money — then immediately had to reinvent it. These small-denomination vales were issued not by any bank but by the collectivized community itself, functioning as internal scrip valid only within the collective's economy. The CNT-FAI's ideological hostility to currency made the whole exercise somewhat contradictory, a tension their own members acknowledged.

Aragonese civil war locals are among the more fragile survivors in Spanish war-period notaphily — thin paper, heavy handling, and no institutional interest in preservation meant most were discarded when the collectives were forcibly dissolved by Republican forces in 1937.