1 Peseta Benifato

Benifato is a tiny municipality in the Comtat del Comtat region of Alicante province — its wartime population barely reached a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small coinage as silver was hoarded and copper withdrawn, forcing hundreds of local councils, no matter how minor, to print their own emergency paper. This note is one of those improvisations: a municipal council issuing currency simply because nothing else was available to make change.

The Gari Montllor cataloguing of Valencia region locales documents several Benifato emissions across denominations. The C suffix in the reference indicates a specific design variant within the series.