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10 Céntimos Naval
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre C.N.T.-F.A.I., Naval |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black and red on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within a geometric guilloche border with ornamental framing devices. A central vignette illustrates a pottery worker seated at a potter's wheel, rendered in a simplified graphic style characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era collectivist issues. The issuing authority and denomination appear in bold lettering above and below the vignette respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Libre C.N.T F.A.I. VALE 10 CÉNTIMOS NAVAL (HUESCA) (Translation: Free Collectivity C.N.T F.A.I. Voucher 10 Centimos Naval (Huesca)) |
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One of hundreds of locally issued emergency scrip notes produced during the Spanish Civil War, when the breakdown of central authority — and the physical scarcity of small-denomination coinage — forced anarchist collectives across Republican-held territory to print their own circulating media. Naval, a small municipality in the province of Huesca, fell within the Aragonese collective network operating under CNT-FAI control from mid-1936. The note was printed in Barcelona by Gráficas Bobés, a commercial printer that handled work for multiple collectives during this period.
Validity was strictly local. Outside the issuing collective's jurisdiction, these notes were worthless — a feature, not a flaw, given the federated structure of anarchist economic organization in wartime Aragon.