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0.50 Pesetas Aínsa
| Issuer | Comité Local Revolucionario de Aínsa |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on pink card stock, this austere emergency issue bears the issuing authority 'COMITÉ LOCAL REVOLUCIONARIO' along the upper margin, with 'AINSA' set in widely spaced capitals immediately below. The denomination '0'50' is rendered in bold oversized numerals at centre, with a vertical serial number positioned to the right; the Republican slogan 'U. H. P.' and the legend 'VALOR INTERIOR' occupy the lower portion of the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITÉ LOCAL REVOLUCIONARIO AINSA 0`50 U. H. P. VALOR INTERIOR (Translation: Revolutionary Local Committee Ainsa 0.50 Unite Hermano Proletario [Workers Unite] - For Local Use Only) |
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Aínsa is a small town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its revolutionary committee issued its own emergency fractional currency when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. The Comité Local Revolucionario designation places this firmly in the earliest phase of the conflict, before regional authorities began consolidating local emission under tighter control.
At 43 × 32 mm on thick card stock, these were essentially chits — produced locally, valid only within the issuing community, and frequently refused even a few kilometers away.