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1 Peseta Beniardá
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Beniardá |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on blue fibrous paper by letterpress, the face is enclosed within a rectangular border composed of small squares arranged in a continuous chain pattern. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / BENIARDÁ' appears in the upper portion in black sans-serif type, separated from the denomination text by a horizontal rule. The value inscription 'Vale por / UNA PESETA' occupies the lower half in bold black lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal BENIARDÁ Vale por UNA PESETA (Translation: Municipal Council Beniardá / Valid for One Peseta) |
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Beniardá is a village in the Comtat el Comtat comarca of Alicante province with a population that barely reached a few hundred in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936 — and municipal councils across the Valencian region and Catalonia began printing their own fractional emergency notes. These are collectively known as "paper moneda local" and catalogued by Gayà under the Gari numbering system.
The Consejo Municipal, not a bank, was the issuing authority here — a wartime administrative body rather than any established financial institution. The official stamp was the only security measure available to a rural council with no printing infrastructure to speak of.