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50 Céntimos Azanuy
| Issuer | Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra U.G.T., Azanuy |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset voucher printed in blue on white paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing body's name appears in bold letterpress across the top, with the locality name centred below on a ruled line; the denomination 'VALE, 50 CENTIMOS' is set in large display type in the centre field. Signature lines for 'El Presidente' and 'El Depositario' appear in the lower portion, with a manuscript signature at lower left and a circular violet official stamp of the U.G.T. Sindicato Campesino, Azanuy (Huesca) applied to the right half. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra U. G. T. AZANUY VALE, 50 CENTIMOS El Presidente, El Depositario, (Translation: Society of Land Workers U.G.T. — Azanuy — Voucher, 50 Centimos — The President, — The Depositary,) |
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Azanuy is a village in the Huesca province of Aragon with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of small Republican-controlled communities issued their own emergency paper — local moneda de necesidad — when the collapse of normal commerce made small-denomination coinage impossible to find. This note is one of those.
The U.G.T. (Unión General de Trabajadores) land workers' branch, not a bank or municipal authority, signed off on this issue. That's the detail worth noting: the issuing body was a trade union of agricultural laborers, which places this squarely within the collectivization movement that restructured rural Aragon between 1936 and 1937.