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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 description | Plain cream paper printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer name 'El Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de Guadix' appears in large serif type across the upper portion, followed by the bearer clause 'pagará al portador' in smaller text. The face value 'UNA PESETA' is set in bold decorative type within a rectangular frame with ruled borders, below which a small ornamental guilloche band runs across the lower margin; a hand-stamped violet numeral '1' appears to the right of the bearer clause. |
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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.