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1 Peseta Benicolet
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benicolet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pale blue-grey card stock with rounded corners. The large bold text 'UNA' occupies the left half of the note, while the issuing authority 'Consejo Municipal de Benicolet' appears in the upper right, separated by horizontal rules, with the denomination 'peseta' in large type at the lower right. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Plain blue-grey card stock bearing a circular violet municipal stamp at centre, enclosing the arms of Benicolet and inscribed 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BENICOLET' around the perimeter with two star separators. A handwritten red serial number appears to the right of the stamp. |
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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.