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10 Pesetas Alloza
| Issuer | Colectividad de Alloza |
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| Value | 10 Pesetas (10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD DE ALLOZA VALE POR 10 PESETAS (Translation: Collectivity of Alloza - Voucher for 10 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in deep red on cream paper, presents a fine parallel-line guilloche underprint across the central field enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular frame, with concentric arc guilloche ornaments at each corner. COLECTIVIDAD arches across the upper portion of the field in bold letterpress, with DE centered immediately below. A solid red band at the foot carries the name ALLOZA in large outlined capitals. |
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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.