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50 Céntimos Alginet
| Issuer | Comunidad de Trabajadores Libres de Alginet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and red letterpress text arranged within a dotted rectangular border, with an ocher underprint of repetitive geometric dotted designs across the field. The central inscription attributes the note to the Board of Directors of the Community of Free Workers of Alginet, with the denomination stated in full as 'Cincuenta Céntimos' and the issuing authority's obligation to redeem in Banco de España banknotes. Dating to July 1937 is incorporated within the text block. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and red letterpress text within a dotted rectangular border, with an ocher underprint of repetitive dotted geometric designs across the field. A central vignette in red depicts a farmer plowing with two horses, rendered in a simple illustrative style typical of Spanish Civil War-era emergency issues. The denomination and mandatory circulation legend are printed below the vignette. |
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Alginet is a small agricultural municipality in the Valencia region, and like dozens of similar towns, its workers' collective issued its own emergency scrip during the early months of the Civil War when coin virtually disappeared from circulation. The Comunidad de Trabajadores Libres — a libertarian-syndicalist body aligned with the CNT — took direct control of local economic life and printed these fractional notes to keep commerce moving internally.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both document this emission, but surviving examples are uncommon. Local scrip of this type was rarely accepted outside its issuing municipality and lost all value once the Republican government pushed to consolidate wartime currency through 1938.