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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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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white field with all text arranged in a typeset letterpress layout. The issuer name "Consejo Municipal / Benalua de las Villas (Granada)" appears at the top in bold mixed-case lettering, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule. Below, "Depositaría" and "Emisión 1937" are set on the same line, followed by the certification legend in smaller type. The denomination "UNA PESETA" is printed in large bold capitals at the lower centre, with the legal tender clause in parentheses beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white field bearing a large circular red ink stamp of the Frente Popular Comité Local of Benalúa de las Villas (Granada), centred on the note. The stamp incorporates a five-pointed star at the top and a clasped-hands vignette at its centre. Handwritten numerical notations appear in ink at the upper right corner outside the stamp. |
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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.