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25 Pesetas Tamarite de Litera
| Issuer | Colectividad de Tamarite de Litera |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-toned card stock with all text in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Colectividad de Tamarite' is printed at the top in bold serif type and underlined by a thick rule. The large denomination numeral '25' and abbreviation 'ptas.' occupy the central field, with the legend 'Valor interior' set in bold type along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-toned card stock bearing a single oval violet ink stamp of the issuing collectivity, applied slightly off-centre. A handwritten catalog or inventory notation appears in pencil along the upper margin above the stamp. |
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Tamarite de Litera, a small town in the Aragonese province of Huesca, came under anarchist-collectivist control in the early weeks of the Spanish Civil War. Like dozens of similarly administered villages across Aragon, it issued its own local currency — not as a banking instrument, but as a practical necessity once conventional money supplies broke down and the collectivized economy required a medium of exchange that outside notes could not reliably serve.
These colectividad notes were typically produced by whatever printing resources existed locally, which is why card stock and improvised formats are the rule rather than the exception. The entire issue was functionally obsolete within months, as CNT-controlled territory contracted and the Francoist advance rendered them worthless.