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1 Peseta Benalúa de las Villas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de las Villas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal Benalúa de las Villas (Granada) Depositaría Emisión 1937 Certificado de papel moneda del Banco de España UNA PESETA (De curso legal en esta localidad) (Translation: Municipal Council Benalúa de las Villas (Granada) Depositary Issue 1937 Bank of Spain paper money certificate One Peseta (Legal tender in this location)) |
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| Reverse lettering | FRENTE POPULAR COMITÉ LOCAL Benalúa de las Villas (Granada) |
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Benalúa de las Villas is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and this 1 Peseta note is among the hundreds of locally issued emergency scrip pieces — known as cartones or billetes locales — produced across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War. The Nationalist blockade and hoarding of metallic coinage left municipalities with no practical means of making change, forcing town councils to print their own.
Gari Mon#277-D places this within a documented series for the Consejo Municipal, though survival rates for small-town Andalusian issues are erratic. Many were redeemed or simply discarded when the Nationalist forces took Granada province.