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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 lettering COLECTIVIDAD DE SANGARREN (Huesca) 2'50 PESETAS
(Translation: Collectivity of Sangarrén (Huesca) 2.50 Pesetas)
Reverse description Plain cream paper with two handwritten ink signatures, one in the upper portion and one in the centre-lower portion, the lower signature enclosed within an oval paraph. No printed design or text is present.
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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.

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