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10 Céntimos Benalúa de las Villas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de las Villas |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with all text printed by letterpress in black, save for the series letter and serial number rendered in blue. The issuing authority is set out in a centred typographic arrangement reading from top to bottom: series designation, serial number, issuing council name, province in parentheses, treasury office designation, issue year, and denomination. A perforated edge is visible at the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Largely plain white ground with a circular red ink validation stamp applied to the lower left quadrant, incorporating a clasped-hands vignette at its centre and the legend referencing the local popular committee of Benalúa de las Villas (Granada). Pencilled collector notations appear in the upper right corner. |
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Benalúa de las Villas is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional paper when metal coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation by mid-1937. The Consejo Municipal — the locally-reorganized Republican council — had no formal banking infrastructure behind it. These notes circulated purely on local trust and were redeemable, in theory, only within the community that issued them.
The Gari Montserrat reference number is unassigned, suggesting the cataloger recorded the type but lacked sufficient data to fully classify it — not unusual for the smaller Andalusian municipal issues, many of which survive in single-digit quantities.