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5 Pesetas Naval
| Issuer | Colectividad Libre C.N.T.-F.A.I., Naval (Huesca) |
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| Size | 67 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black and red letterpress on plain paper, with a geometric border frame enclosing the central vignette of peasants working in a field with a mountain range in the background. The issuing authority and denomination are rendered in bold lettering across the upper and lower portions of the note, with the place of issue in parentheses below. The overall composition reflects the austere graphic style typical of Spanish Civil War-era anarchist collectivity emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 ADMINISTRACIÓN COLECTIVA 5 PESETAS GRÁFICAS BOBÉS, BARCELONA (Translation: Collective Administration 5 Pesetas) |
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Naval is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-held communities ran desperately short of small change. The CNT-FAI collectivities effectively replaced municipal and state authority across much of Aragon in 1936–37, and local currency was a practical necessity, not an ideological gesture — coin had vanished from circulation almost immediately after the July 1936 coup.
Gráficas Bobés of Barcelona printed for numerous collectivities simultaneously, which is why notes from otherwise unconnected villages share obvious typographic similarities. The Aragon Collectivities were forcibly dissolved by Communist-aligned Republican forces in August 1937, rendering all such scrip worthless overnight.