10 Pesetas Alloza

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.