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1 Peseta Benavent de Segrià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Benavent de Segrià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Plain typeset text in black on white paper, carrying the full legal obligation text of the municipal emergency issue in Catalan, with the issuing authority, denomination, emission date, and mandatory circulation clause set in varying type sizes. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BENAVENT DE SEGRIA Una pesseta EMISSIO 1er Desembre, 1937. CURS OBLIGATORI PER A CANVI EN TOT EL DISTRICTE MUNICIPAL (Translation: Municipal Council of Benavent de Segrià / One Peseta / Issue 1st December, 1937. / Mandatory currency for change throughout the entire Municipal District) |
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Benavent de Segrià is a small municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. The Republican government's silver and copper coin stocks were either hoarded, melted, or absorbed into the war economy, leaving local councils — consells municipals — to fill the gap with paper.
Turró catalogs over a thousand such municipal emissions from this period. Most were printed locally on whatever stock was available, with no central oversight of design or quality.