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3 Pesetas Monzón
| Issuer | Consejo Administrativo de la Colectividad de Monzón |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper stock with the issuing authority's name applied entirely by violet rubber stamp impression, arranged in five lines across the face. The letterpress text reads in graduated size from the upper institutional title down to the large boldface locality name at foot. No vignette, underprint, or decorative border is present, consistent with the improvised wartime production of this Civil War-era collectivity voucher. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vale por 3 Ptas. (Translation: Voucher for 3 Pesetas) |
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Monzón, a town in Huesca province, fell under anarchist collectivist control early in the Spanish Civil War. The Consejo Administrativo issued local scrip because the Republican government's currency had largely vanished from circulation — hoarded, destroyed, or simply absent in the chaotic first months after July 1936. These emissions were practical instruments of a command economy, not symbolic gestures: the collective controlled wages, prices, and distribution, and the scrip enforced that closed loop by being worthless outside the local system.
The Gari catalog remains the primary reference for Aragonese Civil War locals, and Mon#967-J is among the smaller-format emissions in the Monzón series.