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2 Pesetas Benejúzar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benejúzar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 80 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typographed in dark blue ink on plain paper, the note is enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with decorative notched corner devices. The issuer's name arches in bold block lettering across the upper half in a semicircular arrangement, above a central rounded rectangle enclosing the numeral '2' and the word 'Pesetas'. A handstamp impression of the municipal seal in violet ink appears to the lower left, and a manuscript serial number is printed at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENEJUZAR 2 Pesetas (Translation: Municipal Council of Benejúzar 2 Pesetas) |
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Benejúzar is a small agricultural municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Alicante province, and like hundreds of other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, its municipal council was forced into printing its own fractional currency after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate small change pushed this responsibility down to the most local level imaginable — a town whose entire population at the time numbered in the low thousands.
Gari Mon catalogues four types for this municipality; the D designation places this among the later or variant issues, though the documentary record for Benejúzar specifically is thin.