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10 Pesetas Alloza
| Issuer | Colectividad de Alloza |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in deep red on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within a border incorporating concentric circular guilloche ornaments at the corners over an interlaced basketweave underprint filling the central field. The issuer name COLECTIVIDAD DE is set in bold letterpress at the top, with a central oval cartouche bearing VALE POR arched above the denomination numeral 10 over PESETAS. The place name ALLOZA appears in large capitals along a ribbon scroll at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD DE ALLOZA VALE POR 10 PESETAS (Translation: Collectivity of Alloza - Voucher for 10 Pesetas) |
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Alloza is a small municipality in Teruel, Aragon — one of hundreds of Republican-controlled towns that issued its own emergency paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the banking system collapsed and metallic coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely by late 1936. These local issues, collectively known as "moneda local" or "billetes de necesidad," were produced under wildly varying conditions: some by professional printers in larger nearby cities, others by local craftsmen with whatever materials were on hand.
The issuing body here, the Colectividad de Alloza, was almost certainly an anarcho-syndicalist collective — CNT-affiliated collectives ran Alloza and much of rural Aragon during this period. That political structure makes this note as much a document of wartime collectivization as a monetary instrument.
Garicoin reference 161-C indicates this is one of multiple variants within the Alloza 10 Pesetas type.