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0.50 Pesetas Benasal
| Issuer | Benasal, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper note with all text in dark brown letterpress. The issuing authority "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL" is set in spaced capitals at the top, separated from the central denomination statement "VALE POR 0'50 PESETAS" by a pair of thin horizontal rules. The municipality and province, "BENASAL (CASTELLÓN)", appear in spaced capitals along the lower margin, similarly ruled off from the body of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL VALE POR 0`50 PESETAS BENASAL (CASTELLON) (Translation: Municipal Council Voucher for 0.50 Pesetas Benasal (Castellon)) |
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Benasal is a small municipality in the Alt Maestrat comarca of Castellón, and like dozens of Valencian villages during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipal notes filled the gap for everyday transactions that the Republican government couldn't address fast enough at the local level.
At 60 × 36 mm, this is about as small as wartime scrip gets. Survival rates for Valencian municipal issues vary wildly; Benasal's output was modest, and the Gari Monardes catalog remains the primary reference for the series.