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1 Peseta Benidorm
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benidorm |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#297-G |
| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress note printed in green ink on cream paper, with a rectangular geometric border framing the entire face. A central vignette at the top presents the municipal coat of arms of Benidorm set within a square ornamental frame of interlaced knotwork, flanked by scrollwork flourishes and the denomination "UNA peseta" repeated in bold type at upper left and upper right. The issuer's name is carried on a curved banner beneath the arms, above the promise-to-pay text and the issuance date; a circular official stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Benidorm is applied in black ink at lower center. |
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| Reverse description | Green lettering with the coat of arms of Benidorm at center, enclosed within a geometric ornamental frame, and a simple rectangular perimeter border. The denomination and issuer name appear in plain letterpress type above and below the central vignette. |
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Benidorm in 1937 was a small fishing village of a few hundred people — not the resort city it would become. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of Valencian municipalities issued their own emergency paper because the Republican government could not keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. Silver and copper had been hoarded or melted, leaving ordinary commerce paralyzed. The Consejo Municipal stepped in as a matter of practical necessity, not monetary ambition.
Local emergency issues like this one were typically printed by whatever press was available nearby, often a job printer with no banknote experience. Survival rates vary wildly — some village issues were redeemed and destroyed, others simply stopped circulating when the Nationalist advance made them worthless overnight.