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10 Céntimos Binéfar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Binéfar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CÉNTIMOS CONSEJO MUNICIPAL BINÉFAR Diez Centimos Emisión aprobada en sesión celebrada el dia 25 de Septiembre de 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Binefar Ten Centimos Issue approved in session held on September 25, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain paper, the reverse is enclosed within a simple double-line border. The upper left carries a circular vignette containing an open book, flanked by allegorical figures of a worker holding a hammer and a farmer with a sickle and wheat sheaves, with crossed rifles between them and an industrial scene of a factory and electricity pylon in the background. |
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Binéfar is a small agricultural town in the Huesca province of Aragon — not a place you'd expect to find its own paper currency. During the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of the Nationalist supply lines and the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-change circulation forced hundreds of municipalities across Aragon and Catalonia to print their own emergency scrip. These local emissions, collectively called "billetes de necesidad," were issued under the authority of whatever governing body remained functional at the municipal level.
The Consejo Municipal issues from Huesca province are among the scarcer provincial emissions — Binéfar's notes saw genuine local circulation before the Nationalist takeover of Aragon in 1938 effectively ended their validity.