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1 Peseta Benicolet
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benicolet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 64 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA peseta Consejo Municipal DE BENICOLET (Translation: One Peseta Municipal Council of Benicolet) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BENICOLET |
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Benicolet is a village in Valencia's Vall d'Albaida comarca with a population that barely reached 400 in the 1930s. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the Republican zone experienced near-total collapse of small coinage by 1937, and hundreds of Valencian townships printed their own paper to keep local commerce moving. The Consell Municipal, operating under anarchist or left-republican administration depending on the month, had few resources and less printing infrastructure.
The thick card construction was deliberate: thinner paper stock wore out within weeks under daily market use.