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1 Peseta Benejúzar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benejúzar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in green ink on plain paper, enclosed within a rectangular double-rule border with step-corner ornaments at each angle. The issuer's name arches in bold letterpress across the upper portion over a central rounded rectangle containing the numeral '1' and the word 'Peseta'. A handstamp in violet ink bearing the municipal coat of arms and circular legend of the Consejo Municipal de Benejúzar is applied at lower left, with a serial number printed in black at the foot of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENEJÚZAR 1 Peseta Nº [serial number] (Translation: Municipal Council of Benejúzar 1 Peseta No. [serial number]) |
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Benejúzar is a small municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province, and like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own local emergency currency when the Nationalist blockade and the demands of wartime drained coinage from circulation entirely. These municipal suplencias were never intended to circulate beyond the town limits — they were stopgap instruments, often printed on whatever stock was available and authenticated by a handstamp rather than any sophisticated security measure.
The Garrido Montaño reference places this within a well-documented but still substantially incomplete cataloguing of Spanish Civil War local issues, many of which survive in only a handful of examples.