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1 Peseta Benisanó
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benisanó (Province of Valencia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 59 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, otherwise blank save for a hand-applied oval municipal stamp in red ink, centrally positioned, enclosing the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic and surrounded by the inscriptions of the issuing authority, with small star ornaments separating the text elements. |
| Reverse lettering | * CONSEJO MUNICIPAL * BENISANÓ * (Translation: Municipal Council of Benisanó) |
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Benisanó is a small agricultural municipality in Valencia with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Republic — which makes the existence of a formally issued local emergency note more striking than it might first appear. The Civil War disrupted coin supply throughout Republican-held Spain so severely that hundreds of town councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses printed their own fractional currency. This note is one of those interventions: a municipal council filling a gap the central government could not.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device, which was entirely typical for Valencian municipal emissions of 1937 and also their principal vulnerability — forgery required nothing more than a convincing rubber stamp.