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2 Pesetas Alginet
| Issuer | Comunidad de Trabajadores Libres de Alginet |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and red over an ocher dotted guilloche underprint, the face bears the full institutional title of the issuing body across the upper field and the denomination in text at centre. A dotted rectangular border frames the entire composition, with the place and date of issue — Alginet, July 1937 — integrated into the main legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 PESETAS DE CURSO OBLIGATORIO en las DEPENDENCIAS de la COMUNIDAD (Translation: 2 Pesetas of mandatory circulation within the Community Dependencies) |
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Alginet is a small citrus-farming municipality in Valencia, and like dozens of similar towns it issued its own emergency paper currency during the early months of the Civil War when hard coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Comunidad de Trabajadores Libres was an anarcho-syndicalist collective — CNT-affiliated — and the notes it issued carried genuine local authority during the period of revolutionary collectivization in the Valencian countryside, roughly 1936–1937.
Provincial Valencian issues from this period survive in wildly uneven quantities depending on print run size and whether the issuing collective was still functioning when Republican authorities began suppressing local currency in late 1937. Alginet examples turn up infrequently enough that condition spread in the market is unusually wide.