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2 Pesetas Belilla de Cinca
| Issuer | Cooperativa Unica de Belilla de Cinca |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text in dark blue ink on cream-coloured thick card stock. The issuer's name, COOPERATIVA UNICA DE BELILLA DE CINCA, is printed in two lines across the upper portion, with the large denomination numeral 2 and abbreviation pts. centred in the middle field. The legend CURSO INTERIOR appears in the lower portion, indicating restricted local circulation. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VELILLA DE CINCA |
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Belilla de Cinca is a small municipality in Huesca province, Aragon, and like hundreds of similar villages across Republican Spain, it issued its own emergency small change during the Civil War after metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. These cooperative-issued notes — technically vales or bonos de necesidad — were a purely local solution to a purely local problem: without fractional currency, market transactions became impossible.
The Cooperativa Única designation suggests a single unified village cooperative rather than a sectoral one, common in agrarian Aragonese communities under CNT influence during this period. Survival rates for such hyper-local issues are unpredictable — some were redeemed and pulped, others simply lost when the Republican zone collapsed.