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1 Unidad Binéfar
| Issuer | Comunidad de Trabajadores C.N.T. - F.A.I. Binéfar |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black and red ink, the obverse centres on a vignette of a shirtless male figure raising an anarchist flag against a radiant rising sun. The issuing authority and denomination are set in bold lettering arranged around the central vignette, reflecting the anarcho-syndicalist identity of the wartime issuer. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 UNIDAD ADMINISTRACIÓN COMUNAL (Translation: Communal Administration) |
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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.