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1 Peseta Beniel
| Issuer | Beniel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#298-B |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red ink, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms of Beniel is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority text arranged in the central and right portions of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Ayuntamiento Pagará al portador UNA PESETA Beniel 8 de Febrero de 1937 Una peseta (Translation: The City Council Will pay the bearer One Peseta Beniel, February 8, 1937 One Peseta) |
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Beniel is a small agricultural municipality in the Huerta de Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the billetes de necesidad designation, were typically printed in tiny quantities and redeemed — or more often not redeemed — within a very limited geographic radius.
The Gari Montaner reference places this firmly in the regional Murcia corpus. Survival rates for Beniel issues are poor; the town's small population meant low print runs, and post-war redemption was neither guaranteed nor systematically recorded.