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1 Peseta Benimodo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benimodo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse with a large oval municipal ink stamp applied at centre, enclosing a coat of arms vignette and the circular legend CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BENIMODO with two star separators; the impression is in blue-violet ink and appears mirror-reversed due to bleed-through from the obverse stamp. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Benimodo is a small municipality in the comarca of La Ribera Alta, Valencia, and like dozens of Valencian towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's small-change shortage became acute in 1936–37. These locally printed vales were technically illegal under Republican monetary regulations but were quietly tolerated because without them local commerce ground to a halt.
Navarro of nearby Carlet printed for several surrounding municipalities, which means similar typography and layout appear across multiple issues in the Ribera Alta region. The official stamp is the only security measure — entirely forgeable, but fraud wasn't really the concern at this scale.