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0.50 Pesetas Benilloba
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benilloba |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Benilloba La Depositaría de este Consejo, reintegrará al portador 0`50 pesetas 15 Agosto 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Benilloba The Depositary of this Council will reimburse the bearer 0.50 Pesetas August 15, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENILLOBA |
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Benilloba is a village in the Comtat, a comarca of Alicante province, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of similarly small municipalities across Republican-held Spain in 1937, the local council issued its own fractional paper currency to address the near-total disappearance of small coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply gone from circulation as the war disrupted normal monetary flows. These emergency municipal emissions were never coordinated by any central authority; each ayuntamiento or consejo acted on its own initiative.
Gari Montllor's catalog of Valencia region wartime issues documents this as type 306-B, implying at least one variant exists for the series.