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1 Peseta Benalúa de Guadix
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de Guadix |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de Guadix pagará al portador UNA PESETA (Translation: The Municipal Council of Benalúa de Guadix will pay the bearer One Peseta) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENALÚA DE (Granada) |
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Benalúa de Guadix is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued paper during the acute small-change crisis of the Civil War years. The Consejo Municipal issues of this period were acts of pure necessity — the Republican government's copper and silver coinage had largely vanished from circulation by 1936–37, hoarded or melted, and commerce at the village level ground to a halt without fractional currency.
Gari Mon#276-C places this among the rarer documented local emissions from the Granada interior. Most such notes were redeemed or simply discarded once the war ended; survival rates for small-town Andalusian emergency issues are low.