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0.25 Pesetas Benilloba
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benilloba |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a thin yellow rectangular border frame. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de Benilloba' is printed in bold yellow letterpress across the top, underlined by a horizontal dotted line. Below, the redemption text and denomination '0'25 pesetas' appear in yellow lettering, with a small decorative wave vignette to the left of the value; the issue date '15 Agosto 1937' is set at lower left and a printed serial number appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BENILLOBA |
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Benilloba is a tiny municipality in the Comtat region of Valencia, population a few hundred even today. During the Civil War, the breakdown of the Republican monetary supply — caused by hoarding of metal coin and the collapse of confidence in central-government notes — forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own fractional currency. Benilloba's issues belong to that same emergency wave of 1937, when local councils became de facto monetary authorities out of necessity rather than any legal mandate.
The Gari catalogue is the primary reference for these Valencian municipals, and 306-A is among the scarcer small-denomination village issues.