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15 Céntimos Samper de Calanda
| Issuer | Colectividad Obrera y Campesina C.N.T. de Samper de Calanda |
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| Value | 15 Centimos (0.15 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper with all text applied in black letterpress. The issuing authority's name, "Colectividad Obrera y Campesina / C. N. T.", is printed in bold capitals across the upper portion, followed by the locality name "Samper de Calanda" in the centre. A stamped serial number appears in the middle field, with the denomination statement "Vale por 15 céntimos" in bold letterpress along the lower edge. The left border carries a column of perforations, consistent with separation from a booklet or counterfoil. |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Obrera y Campesina C. N. T. Samper de Calanda Vale por 15 céntimos (Translation: Worker and Peasant Collectivity C. N. T. Samper de Calanda Voucher for 15 Centimos) |
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Samper de Calanda was a small agricultural village in Teruel, Aragon, where the CNT-affiliated collective took control of local economic life during the Spanish Civil War. Like dozens of similar village collectives in 1936–37, they issued their own fractional paper to replace coin that had vanished from circulation almost immediately after the July 1936 uprising — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in rural economies that had never seen much of it. These local emissions had no legal standing under any central authority, Republican or otherwise, and were redeemable only within the issuing community.
The CNT collectives of Aragon represent one of the most documented experiments in anarcho-syndicalist economic organization in modern history. Samper de Calanda's scrip circulated for roughly a year before the Lister Division's suppression of the Aragon collectives in August 1937 rendered it worthless overnight.