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1 Peseta Benavites
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benavites |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on cream card stock, entirely in black ink. The denomination word 'UNA' is printed in very large bold capitals occupying the left half of the note, with 'peseta' in bold lowercase beneath a ruling line at lower right. The issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal DE BENAVITES' appears in the upper right quadrant, framed by two horizontal rules above and below 'BENAVITES'. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA peseta Consejo Municipal DE BENAVITES (Translation: One Peseta Municipal Council of Benavites) |
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Benavites is a tiny municipality in Valencia's Camp de Morvedre comarca — population then well under a thousand — yet like hundreds of similarly small Republican-held towns, it issued its own emergency scrip during the Civil War when coin shortages became acute enough to paralyze local commerce. The Consejo Municipal designation reflects the wartime administrative structure imposed across Republican territory after July 1936, replacing the pre-war ayuntamiento framework.
The Turró and Gari catalogues together document thousands of these Valencian municipally-issued pieces; the fact that Benavites rates an individual entry in both confirms at least some specimens survived, though village-level scrip of this period was destroyed in quantity after Franco's forces consolidated control of the region in 1938.