1 Peseta Benabarre

Benabarre is a small town in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and like dozens of similar municipalities it issued its own emergency scrip after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national money supply. The CNT-FAI collective that ran the town during the early revolutionary period controlled both labour and local commerce, and these notes functioned as internal currency within that closed economy — accepted at collective-run shops and services, useless outside the immediate area.

Local production on card stock rather than banknote paper was the norm for this type. The rough dimensions reflect a hand-cut or guillotined sheet, not a precision press run.