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2.50 Pesetas Sangarrén
| Issuer | Colectividad de Sangarrén |
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| Value | 2.50 Pesetas (2.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design printed entirely in red on cream paper. A rectangular border with notched corner ornaments encloses the issuer text, below which the denomination appears in large bold lettering outside the frame. A double-rule band runs along the bottom edge of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLECTIVIDAD DE SANGARREN (Huesca) 2'50 PESETAS (Translation: Collectivity of Sangarrén (Huesca) 2.50 Pesetas) |
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Sangarrén is a village in the province of Huesca, Aragon — population well under a thousand even in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, anarchist collectivization swept through rural Aragon, and many of these micro-communities issued their own scrip when coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. These local emergency notes, known broadly as *moneda local de guerra*, were produced in conditions that were often improvised, and Sangarrén's issue is among the more obscure examples in the Aragonese series.
The 2.50 pesetas denomination is characteristically awkward — a value that only makes sense when small change has completely broken down.