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1 Peseta Benimasot
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benimasot |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 PTA. CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENIMASOT La Depositaría de este Consejo, reintegrará al portador Una peseta (Translation: 1 Peseta Municipal Council of Benimasot The depository of this Council, will reimburse the bearer One Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper field bearing a circular blue municipal stamp at centre right, partially legible, alongside a handwritten cursive signature and a flourished rubric at the left side of the note. |
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Benimasot is a village in the Comtat district of the Valencian Community with a population that barely reached three hundred during the 1930s. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage from 1936 onward, and thousands of town councils, trade unions, and cooperatives across Catalonia and Valencia filled the gap with locally printed vales and billetes. The Consejo Municipal issues were technically illegal under central Republican monetary law but were tolerated out of necessity.
Gari Mon#308-C places this within a documented Benimasot series, though surviving examples from such micro-municipal issues are inherently scarce given the tiny print runs and the note's disposable, transactional purpose.