Requena, a town in Valencia's wine country, was among the agricultural collectives that issued its own emergency scrip during the anarcho-syndicalist reorganization of the Spanish Republican economy following the July 1936 uprising. The CNT's collectivization of land and production across the Levante region meant that the peseta effectively ceased to function as a trusted medium in day-to-day local exchange — hence notes like this one, backed by nothing more formal than collective authority.
The dual catalog reference under both Gari and Turró reflects the long editorial confusion over classifying Civil War–era local issues, many of which circulated for only months before Franco's forces consolidated control over Valencia province in 1939.
Requena, a town in Valencia's wine country, was among the agricultural collectives that issued its own emergency scrip during the anarcho-syndicalist reorganization of the Spanish Republican economy following the July 1936 uprising. The CNT's collectivization of land and production across the Levante region meant that the peseta effectively ceased to function as a trusted medium in day-to-day local exchange — hence notes like this one, backed by nothing more formal than collective authority.
The dual catalog reference under both Gari and Turró reflects the long editorial confusion over classifying Civil War–era local issues, many of which circulated for only months before Franco's forces consolidated control over Valencia province in 1939.