Catalog
1 Peseta Benifallet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Benifallet |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal control stamp in violet ink, reading CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BENIFALLET DEL EBRE around a small central floral device, serving as the sole authentication mark for this emergency issue. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Benifallet is a small municipality on the Ebro in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Consell Municipal — the locally reorganized governing body under the Republican administration — had the note printed at Imprenta Querol in nearby Tortosa, the obvious choice for small-run emergency jobs in the comarca.
Turró catalogs this as #413. The official stamp was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, applied individually — meaning unstamped survivors are considered incomplete issues.