Catalog
3 Pesetas Benabarre
| Issuer | Colectividad de Benabarre (C.N.T. - A.I.T.) |
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| Value | 3 Pesetas (3 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress printing in black ink on cream-coloured thick card stock, entirely unadorned by vignette or decorative border. The issuing authority "Colectividad de Benabarre" and the anarcho-syndicalist affiliation "C.N.T. - A.I.T." are set in the upper portion, with the large bold numeral "3" and abbreviated denomination "ptas." centred in the middle field. A vertical perforated or ruled dividing line appears at the right margin, alongside a sideways serial number, with the authorization text "EL COMITÉ" and the validity clause "VALOR INTERIOR" printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, plain cream card stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. A faint circular stamp impression, likely an ink control mark applied by the issuing committee, is faintly visible near the left-centre of the field. |
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Benabarre is a small town in the Ribagorza comarca of Huesca, Aragon — deep CNT territory during the Spanish Civil War. The Colectivitat de Benabarre was one of hundreds of anarcho-syndicalist collectives that collectivized local economic life after July 1936 and issued their own scrip to function outside the collapsing peseta economy. These notes circulated only within the collective's jurisdiction and were redeemable in goods and services, not in legal tender.
The CNT-AIT designation places this squarely within the anarchist trade union structure. Local production — almost certainly hand-stamped or printed on available card stock — means no two surviving examples are quite identical in impression quality.