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2 Pesetas Angüés
| Issuer | Colectividad Agrícola y Varios de Angüés |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in orange-ochre ink with a triple-rule rectangular border framing all text. The issuer name 'Colectividad Agrícola y Varios' appears in the upper register above 'ANGÜÉS' in spaced capitals, separated from the lower register by a double rule. The denomination 'Vale por 2'00 ptas.' is set in large bold letterpress type occupying the lower two-thirds of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Largely blank reverse with ghost impressions of the obverse text visible through the thin paper. A hand-applied octagonal violet ink stamp reading 'COLECTIVIDAD DE ANGÜÉS (Huesca)' is struck in the centre, validating the note. A handwritten serial number in green ink appears at the top of the note. |
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Angüés is a small village in the Hoya de Huesca comarca of Aragon, and this note is a product of the radical economic experiment that swept Republican-controlled Spain during the Civil War. After July 1936, hundreds of Aragonese villages collectivized under anarchist influence, with the CNT organizing both agricultural production and local exchange. Colectividades often issued their own scrip when coin and Bank of Spain currency dried up — "varios" in the issuer name suggests multiple local entities co-signing the emission, a common arrangement in villages too small to sustain a single issuing body.
Huesca province notes from this period are among the harder collectivity issues to locate, given the chaos of the Nationalist advance through Aragon in 1938 and the subsequent suppression of collectivist records.