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1 Peseta Benegida
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benegida |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress composition on pale grey-green card stock printed entirely in black ink. The word 'UNA' appears in large bold block capitals occupying the left half of the note, with the issuer name 'Consejo Municipal de BENEGIDA' arranged in two lines separated by a rule on the right half. The denomination 'peseta' is set in bold lower-case lettering below the issuer text, underscored by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse of pale grey-green card stock, bearing no legends, vignettes, or markings; the natural fibrous texture of the thick card material is visible across the entire surface. |
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Benegida is a tiny municipality in the Valencia region, and this note is a product of the fractional currency crisis that swept Republican-controlled Spain from 1936 onward. The withdrawal of metallic coinage from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply disrupted by wartime logistics — forced hundreds of local councils to print their own low-denomination substitutes. Benegida's population at the time was well under a thousand. That a village of that size was issuing its own monetary instruments tells you more about the collapse of normal supply chains than any broader account could.