10 Céntimos Altorricón

Altorricón is a small municipality in the Huesca province of Aragon, and this note is a product of the anarcho-syndicalist and socialist collectivization that swept the region during the Spanish Civil War. When the peseta effectively ceased to function as a reliable medium of exchange in Republican-held rural Aragon, agricultural cooperatives — often jointly administered by UGT and CNT, ideological rivals who found practical common ground — issued their own scrip to pay workers and facilitate local trade. The dual union attribution is itself historically telling: such joint ventures were unusual given the deep tensions between the socialist UGT and the anarchist CNT.

Thousands of these municipal and cooperative emergency emissions were produced across Aragon between 1936 and 1939. Most were printed on whatever materials were available and redeemed or destroyed when the collectives were forcibly dissolved, primarily after communist-aligned Republican forces suppressed the Aragon collectives in August 1937.