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10 Enteros Andorra

Issuer Colectividad de Andorra (Teruel)
Year 1936
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse description Printed in blue-violet ink, the note is enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. A central vignette depicts three labourers engaged in digging with shovels, rendered in a simple graphic style typical of Spanish Civil War-era emergency issues. The text is arranged around and above the vignette in bold letterpress typography.
Obverse lettering Colectividad de Andorra (TERUEL) Bono por 10 enteros emisión 1936
(Translation: Collectivity of Andorra (Teruel) Bond for 10 Enteros issue 1936)
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During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of Republican municipalities and collectives issued their own emergency scrip when coined money vanished from circulation almost overnight. This note was produced by the Colectividad de Andorra — not the Pyrenean principality, but the small town of Andorra in Teruel province, Aragon. The "Enteros" denomination was a localism used by several Aragonese collectives, roughly equivalent to pesetas for internal trade within the issuing community.

Teruel province saw some of the war's most brutal fighting; the Battle of Teruel in the winter of 1937–38 effectively ended Republican control of the region, and most of this scrip was rendered worthless within two years of issue.

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