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50 Grados Binéfar
| Issuer | Comunidad de Trabajadores de Binéfar (C.N.T. - F.A.I.) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black and red letterpress printing on plain paper. A central vignette shows a figure without a shirt waving an anarchist flag against a rising sun. The anarcho-syndicalist affiliations C.N.T. and F.A.I. are inscribed alongside the issuing locality, with the denomination expressed in the local exchange unit 'Grados' rather than pesetas. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in light blue on plain paper, the reverse is framed by a simple guilloche border. Three diagonal bands of guilloche underprint traverse the field, with the denomination '50 GRADOS' appearing in the upper left and again inverted in the lower right. The issuing authority is inscribed diagonally across the centre, and a handwritten serial number is applied in ink. |
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Binéfar, a small agricultural town in Aragon, fell under anarchist collectivization almost immediately after the July 1936 military uprising. The Comunidad de Trabajadores — organized under the CNT-FAI — abolished money in principle while simultaneously issuing local scrip to manage exchange within the collective. The paradox was real and widely acknowledged at the time.
The denomination "grados" — degrees — reflects the collectivist accounting theory then current in libertarian circles, where labor time or productive units replaced peseta values. Binéfar was among the more systematic practitioners of this approach in the Huesca province.
Gari Mon#335-H places this within a documented series, though survival rates for Aragonese collective scrip are low; most was demonetized forcibly after Franco's forces and communist-aligned units dismantled the collectives in 1937.