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5 Pesetas La Felguera
| Issuer | Comité de Abastos de La Felguera |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white field printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name appears in bold serif type across the upper portion, underlined by a double rule. Below, the denomination legend is set in two centred lines of bold type. The note has a perforated border on all four sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | comité de Abastos de La Felguera Vale por cinco pesetas en géneros (Translation: Supply Committee of La Felguera - Worth five pesetas in goods) |
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La Felguera, an industrial town in Asturias built almost entirely around the Duro-Felguera steel and mining company, issued its own emergency paper during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican zone faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. These local committee notes — emitted by bodies like the Comité de Abastos, the supply committee — were a direct response to hoarding and the disruption of the Madrid mint's distribution networks. They were never legal tender in any formal sense, simply an agreed local scrip.
Survival rates for Asturian civil war fractional notes are low. The northern Republican enclave fell to Nationalist forces in October 1937, and most locally-issued paper was abandoned, destroyed, or simply lost in the displacement that followed.