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50 Céntimos Azanuy

Issuer Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra U.G.T., Azanuy
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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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,)
Reverse description Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned white paper with no text, ornamentation, or security features.
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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.

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